When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
ADRIENNE RICH
We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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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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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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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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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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