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Quotes from Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft by Bill Moyers — Marge Piercy

born 1936 United States

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I've been amazed at the number of unions that tell me how helpful "To be of use" is to them in their organizing work.

Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft by Bill Moyers (1999)

Poems told me there were other people who felt the way I felt. That was validation for the person I was. Poems can mean survival.

Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft by Bill Moyers (1999)

We have been living in times in which human cruelty is all around us. Yet the world is very beautiful.

Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft by Bill Moyers (1999)

I want my poems to give voice to something in the experience of a life. To find ourselves spoken for in art gives dignity to our pain, our anger, our losses.

Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft by Bill Moyers (1999)

From the third grade on, women are trained to mistrust their natural bodies and to try to make them conform with body types belonging to two percent of the population.

Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft by Bill Moyers (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marge Piercy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.