Occupation: Poet Birth: May 16, 1929 Death: March 27, 2012
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the ….
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still r….
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 ….
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….
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet..
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 ….
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors..
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see..
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life..
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonan….
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do..
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how ….
When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing..
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind..
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….
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 ….
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of t….
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever..
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be..
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an ide….
Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art ….