But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
ADRIENNE RICHJust as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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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.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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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 woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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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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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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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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