To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
ADRIENNE RICHA decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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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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[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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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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