The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
ADRIENNE RICHThe danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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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 don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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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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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 the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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