I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
ADRIENNE RICHIt is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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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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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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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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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.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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