Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

ADRIENNE RICH

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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.

ADRIENNE RICH

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.

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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

ADRIENNE RICH

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.

ADRIENNE RICH

What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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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.

ADRIENNE RICH

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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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.

ADRIENNE RICH

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

ADRIENNE RICH

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.

ADRIENNE RICH

I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

ADRIENNE RICH

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

ADRIENNE RICH

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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ADRIENNE RICH

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

ADRIENNE RICH

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

ADRIENNE RICH

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.

ADRIENNE RICH

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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