What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
ADRIENNE RICHI choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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A 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.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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