Adrienne Rich gives masterclass in right-on sincerity...

If you love language and see it being betrayed, if you feel a huge gap between what you're told is going on and what you actually see and feel on your nerves -- then this is the material of your art, there's no escaping it.

"The question then is, how do you make enduring beauty and form out of such materials?
"And that will be the question of a lifetime."