What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

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No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down — impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

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When I am dead, even then,
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories.

I think there is choice possible at any moment to us, 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

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.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.