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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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Century Coming Country Culture Different Discerned Poetic Role Social Together Voice
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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Life Live Poet Poetry Remember Taught
To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Home Scenery Suffer Suffering
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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Body Complexity Desire Dream Fecundity Struggle Struggling Truth Unconcious
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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Becoming Being Breast Cease Fear Feminism Human Male Man Mother Provide Son Women
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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Across Chalkboard Depended Dream Dredged Life Memories Public Sieved Word Writing
Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Birth Child Children Grow Up Waiting
The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Amnesia Liar Lying Silence Suffer Unconscious
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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Condition Exempt Human Oppression Race Servitude Sex Speak
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Becoming Border Correct Dream Escaping Political Politically Showed Sign
It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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Destructiveness Dominated Male Refusal Self Society
What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Another Body Live Ourselves Sense Skin Surpass
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Beauty Darkness Let See
Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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Challenge Compensatory Freedom Intellectual Nonexclusionary Political Simply Structure Studies Women
Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Literature Oppressor Poetry Reality

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