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 RICHI don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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