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Every poet has a certain amount of stuff. That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.
Marge Piercy
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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.
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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.
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This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
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Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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