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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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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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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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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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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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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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