Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
ADRIENNE RICHWe move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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