Minnie Bruce Pratt famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.
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We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between-we don't even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but people certainly live in it.
-- Minnie Bruce Pratt -
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbianâ€â€”but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.
-- Minnie Bruce Pratt
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
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