Occupation: Poet Birth: May 16, 1929 Death: March 27, 2012
The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious..
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe..
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most pow….
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her..
Life on the planet is born of woman..
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary..
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, ….
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is sublimina….
Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a cha….
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed,….
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder.
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be..
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls..
Lying is done with words and also with silence..
Strangers are an endangered species..
I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made he….
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that….
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope..
To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your….
White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircli….
A language is a map of our failures.