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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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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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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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