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Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

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Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true in political situations. The q...more

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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim uswhich will we claimhow will we go on livinghow will we touch, what will we knowwhat will w...more

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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.

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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life n...more

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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 —...more

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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

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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, ...more

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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, ...more

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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

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I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.

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...you look at me like an emergency

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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 l...more

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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 terr...more

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Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.