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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

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Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.

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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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All new learning looks at first like chaos.

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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.

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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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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

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