What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.
What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
My lifetime listens to yours.
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.
The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
Reality is the completion of experience.
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.
The journey is my home.
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.
One writes in order to feel.
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare
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