Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
ADRIENNE RICHWeather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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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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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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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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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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