We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

ADRIENNE RICH

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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

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Bagwalas

… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being

ADRIENNE RICH

… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
ADRIENNE RICH

Dreamt
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

ADRIENNE RICH

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
ADRIENNE RICH

Less More Shelter Working
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.

ADRIENNE RICH

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
ADRIENNE RICH

Necessity Trying
In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.

ADRIENNE RICH

In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
ADRIENNE RICH

Bringing Console
I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

ADRIENNE RICH

I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
ADRIENNE RICH

Mine Sew Skin Stitch Together
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

ADRIENNE RICH

In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
ADRIENNE RICH

Cutting Interval Revelation Self Stopped
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

ADRIENNE RICH

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
ADRIENNE RICH

Breath Simple Take
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

ADRIENNE RICH

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
ADRIENNE RICH

Own Wrestles
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

ADRIENNE RICH

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
ADRIENNE RICH

Androgyne Child Describe Infinite Language Living Name Newborn Noun Surviving Verb
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.

ADRIENNE RICH

When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
ADRIENNE RICH

Describe Disequilibrium Individual Strength Physic
What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.

ADRIENNE RICH

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
ADRIENNE RICH

Century Coming Culture Discerned Poetic Together
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.

ADRIENNE RICH

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
ADRIENNE RICH

Historical More Order Repression Simulate Target Turmoil Various
When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

ADRIENNE RICH

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
ADRIENNE RICH

Making One Tell
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
ADRIENNE RICH

Taught
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
ADRIENNE RICH

Defined Fought Recovery
But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

ADRIENNE RICH

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
ADRIENNE RICH

Bodies

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