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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

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We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.

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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

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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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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

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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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