No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
ADRIENNE RICHThe word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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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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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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