Alicia Ostriker Quotes
With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
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When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
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It's going to be a big topic of discussion.
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Timing has a lot to with art.
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The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.
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Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
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Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.
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I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.
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If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?
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With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.
