Occupation: Poet Birth: May 16, 1929 Death: March 27, 2012
The password is a flicker of an eyelash..
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle..
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope..
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality..
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has ….
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being..
[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of….
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity..
A language is a map of our failures.
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?.
Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction..
Strangers are an endangered species..
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….
I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal mov….
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 a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her..
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 belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and….
TV has created a kind of false collectivity..
Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself..
What we see, we see and seeing is changing.