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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

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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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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Abortion Deep Desperate First Herself Violence Woman
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Another Mind Obscurity Passion Singling Tale
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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All Equal Grief Tear Women
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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Courage Defined Fall Fought Recovery Rose
So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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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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Aquifer Collective History Rupture Secret Spiritual Voice
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Alive Born Delight Extraneous Giving Offered
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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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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