When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
ADRIENNE RICHIn America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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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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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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