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Writing poetry is a state of free float

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Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times.

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Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them ...more

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A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

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There is the staircase,there is the sun.There is the kitchen,the plate with toast and strawberry jam,your subterfuge,your ordinary mirage.You stand re...more

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You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

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UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's so...more

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A lot of people call you a feminist painter.""What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and yo...more

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They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their earl...more

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You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me...more

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They were wrong about the sun.It does not go down into the underworld at night.The sun leaves merelyand the underworld emerges.It can happen at any mo...more

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from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

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So by the time the morning came, Odysseus and I were indeed friends, as Odysseus had promised we would be. Or let me put it another way: I myself had ...more

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Where do the words gowhen we have said them?