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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

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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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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.

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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

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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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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

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... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--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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