If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
ADRIENNE RICHTV has created a kind of false collectivity.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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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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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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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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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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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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