War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
ADRIENNE RICHPoetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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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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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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The 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.
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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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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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