Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
ADRIENNE RICHThe liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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