I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
ADRIENNE RICHWe move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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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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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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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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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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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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