Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history it is an act of survival.Adrienne Rich
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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