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Michelene Wandor
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“The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.”
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“Poets must be / Either men or women, more's the pity.”
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“I know / I've failed, if failure means to walk away / And look back sadly on work gladly done.”
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“No honest work of man or woman 'fails'; / It feeds the sum of all human action.”
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“... I will not sit in sackcloth / will not dry my palms with ashes / will not eat the dust / for that does not celebrate you / and that does not celebrate me ... ”
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“... the word 'virtue' is not / in my vocabulary / 'strength' is ...”
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“in the middle of the night / people tell their dreams / and it is important, even / though there is never much / of an audience.”
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“I slept in my clothes / last night / just so you'll know / I think of you / sleeping in yours.”
Michelene Wandor, English poet, playwright, critic
(1940)
Full name: Michelene Dinah Samuels Wandor; sometimes Michelene Victor.