Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
ADRIENNE RICHPracticing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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