To Seek Visions, To Dream

The Serious Revolutionary, Like The Serious Artist, Can't Afford To Lead A Sentimental Or Self-deceiving Life.

A Patriot Is One Who Wrestles For The Soul Of Her Country As She Wrestles For Her Own Being.

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 Terrifying To Both Persons Involved, A Process Of Refining The Truths They Can Tell Each Other. It Is Important To Do This Because It Breaks Down Human Self-delusion And Isolation. It Is Important To Do This Because In Doing So We Do Justice To Our Own Complexity. It Is Important To Do This Because We Can Count On So Few People To Go That Hard Way With Us.

... Passion For Survival Is The Great Theme Of Women's Poetry.

Poems Are Like Dreams: In Them You Put What You Don't Know You Know.