I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
ADRIENNE RICHOne 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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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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A language is a map of our failures.
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