The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
ADRIENNE RICHArt means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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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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Experience is always larger than language.
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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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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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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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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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