A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

The moment of change is the only poem.

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

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

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.