Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
ADRIENNE RICHNo one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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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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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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