False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.Adrienne Rich
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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A poem can being
with a lie.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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As her sons have seen her the mother in patriarchy controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose to bear and nourish the son.
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