Alicia Suskin Ostriker Quotes

#1. The mind is a leaf pile where you can bury anything ...

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

#2. May, and after a rainy spring
We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

#3. To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination and my body are one.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

#4. Passing that fiery tree-if only she could; Be making love, Be making poetry, Be exploding, be speeding through the universe; Like a photon, like a shower; Of yellow blazes...

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#5. With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.

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#6. The secret shape of this book is a parachute
all the lines leading to the person hanging there
drifting on the wind and always falling
waiting for the mists to clear

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#7. The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker