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“I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.”

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“How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?”

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And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds--nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out…

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Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

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We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've…

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Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself…

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We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.

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For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced…

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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them…

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The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

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... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,…

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The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

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