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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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Believe Choice Help Keep Language Life Move Paralysed Respect
In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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