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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.
ADRIENNE RICH

Alternative Consciousness Destiny Flow Grain Idea
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
ADRIENNE RICH

Absolute Confusion Defeat Despair Failure Imagination Physical Response War
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Complicated Delusion Fake False Journey Memories Naming Past People Real
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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Fermenting Intellectual Interest Kind Moral People Poetry Political Sensual Sexual Together
Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Literature Oppressor Poetry Reality
All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Chaos First Learning Look New
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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Air Animal Blazing Budding City Dappled Exuberantly Imagined Passion Scar Sulfuric Sycamores Tree
It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Beyond Existence Own Poet Risk Some Survival
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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Art Connected Isolation Literature Loneliness People Sex
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Bad Ass Believe Children Endangered Feminist Physically Society
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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Knew Mother Nothing Prepared Realization State Uncertain
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Integrity Liar Silence Truth Word
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Assumption Drenched Know Ourselves Until
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
ADRIENNE RICH

Citizen Class Generation Grief Magnet National Race Relationship Wall War
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
ADRIENNE RICH

Consciousness Fathered Insider Institutions Masculine Really Woman
The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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Assumption Culture Men Patriarchy Real Subgroup Women World

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