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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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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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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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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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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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