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.
ADRIENNE RICHIt will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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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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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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