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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

Adrienne Rich

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
ADRIENNE RICH

Miracle More People Thinking Together Two
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
ADRIENNE RICH

Bodies Body Control Fully Human Intelligence Life Natural Order Physical Unity
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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Blackness Children Dawn Light Running Twilight Women
To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Darkness Found Light Rejecting Treasure
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Bridges Especially Interested Line Long Poem Scoring Space Thinking
The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Apparated Asking Crucial Movement Political Voice Women
What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Changing See Seeing
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Able Anger Except Inward Nail Rusted Touch Women
What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Believe Government Represent Same Thing
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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Authorities Authority Certain Face Life Power Prime Rarely Woman
Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Great Passion Poetry Survival Theme Women
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Creating Possibility Telling Truth Woman
There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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Country Incomprehension Institution Male Political Power Real Speaking
An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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Delicate Honorable Human Involved Person Process Relationship Terrifying Truth Violent
It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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Alone Disturb Enrapture Monster Monstrous People Speak Themselves
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
ADRIENNE RICH

Conscious Cutting Interval Light Profane Revelation Self Stopped Time

Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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