Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
ADRIENNE RICHOnly to have a grief equal to all these tears!
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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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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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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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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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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