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 RICHBut before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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