There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
ADRIENNE RICHThe password is a flicker of an eyelash.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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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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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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