Life on the planet is born of woman.
ADRIENNE RICH
The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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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.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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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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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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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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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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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 will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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