There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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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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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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