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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.

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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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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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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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Common My Own Something Way
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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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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