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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.

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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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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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