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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
ADRIENNE RICH

Connection Going Isolated Kind Mean Movement Thinking Two
Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
ADRIENNE RICH

Since Time Week Wrap Years Missing Young
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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Cloning Laboratories Live Nuclear Pipeline Power Radioactivity Real Street Switchboard Telephone
Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Great Passion Poetry Survival Theme Women
Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Chamber Desire Feeling Locked Poetry Possibility Recharge Zone
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Failure Imagination Political Scientific War
It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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Beginning End May Moving November Solistice
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.
ADRIENNE RICH

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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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Exist Fear Feminism Infantilism Longing Male Mother Much Purely Remain Son
“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
ADRIENNE RICH

Each Explore Other Society Stake Stories Want
You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
ADRIENNE RICH

Art Everything Poet Poetic Reading Thinking Writing
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
ADRIENNE RICH

Attempt Liar Lying Ought Simpler Usually
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Desire Dream Invent Lose Success Use
It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard Important People Way

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