Occupation: Poet Birth: May 16, 1929 Death: March 27, 2012
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in ….
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet..
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salv….
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own ….
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing ….
All new learning looks at first like chaos..
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage..
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps th….
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..
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons..
The password is a flicker of an eyelash..
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, im….
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….
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see..
The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illumina….
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors..
Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine.
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you ….
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat s….
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terri….
We must use what we have to invent what we desire..