There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
ADRIENNE RICHWhat kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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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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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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