We have lived with violence far too long.
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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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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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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