False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

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

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political