Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
ADRIENNE RICHA book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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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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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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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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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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