[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 RICHTo do something very common, in my own way.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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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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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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