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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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Born Each Help Helping Knowing Live Somehow Somewhere Tomorrow
But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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Envying Imagination Imagine Place Possibilities Struggle Survival Unresigned
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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Authority Describe Disequilibrium Individual Strength Mirror Physic Teacher World
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Afford Artist Deceiving Self Sentimental Serious
Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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Age Cast Destroyed Extraordinary Heart Lot Moved perversely Power Reconstitute Save World
I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Consumer Really Target Though
To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Home Scenery Suffer Suffering
If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Androcentric Dependent Foundation Leave Marginal Solipsistic Thinking Tunnel Variable Vision
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Living Money No Stories Tell Wit
When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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Looking Mirror Nothing Someone Speak Teacher World
In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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Bringing Console Create Sustain Vision Woman
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Failure Imagination Political Scientific War
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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