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My Generation Of Young Female Writers Discovered That We Could Dictate The Form And Content Of Our Own Fiction.

We Need Poetry Most At Those Moments When Life Astounds Us With Losses, Gains, Or Celebrations. We Need It Most When We Are Most Hurt, Most Happy, Most Downcast, Most Jubilant. Poetry Is The Language We Speak In Times Of Greatest Need. And The Fact That It Is An Endangered Species In Our Culture Tells Us That We Are In Deep Trouble.

Language Can't Be Appropriated By One Person, One Poet. The Words Belong To All Of Us.

Once I Worshipped Keats For Dying Young. Now I Think It's Braver To Die Old.

In Loving Life You Love What Can't Survive.