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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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