he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
ADRIENNE RICHA president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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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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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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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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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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