Occupation: Poet Birth: May 16, 1929 Death: March 27, 2012
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious strug….
In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we….
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the min….
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can underst….
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail..
It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism..
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters..
It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack..
Reality, the oppressor's tongue..
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselve….
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves..
We have lived with violence far too long..
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with ….
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the lett….
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life..
Only where there is language is there world..
Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself..
The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on spe….
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do wi….
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" t….
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings.