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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
ADRIENNE RICH

Amid Country Dysfunction Finding Increasing Society
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Failure Imagination Political Scientific War
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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Attempt Liar Lying Ought Simpler Usually
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Depended Life Must Read Writing
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
ADRIENNE RICH

Concentration Language ower Poetry Power Relationship Ultimate Universe
But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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Bodies Body Mind Mother Women
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
The moment of change is the only poem.
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Change Healing Moment Poem Poetry
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
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
ADRIENNE RICH

Birth Code Cultural Giving Law Professional Religious
It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
ADRIENNE RICH

Beyond Existence Own Poet Risk Some Survival
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
ADRIENNE RICH

Difficulty Fundamental Intellectual Men Patrivincialism Patrochialism Perceptual Real Sexism
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Desire Dream Invent Lose Success Use
It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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Changeable Daily Earth Eternal Indestructible Life Live Spawn Swallow Threating Unstable
Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Brotherhood Interest Least Loyal Men Own Self Since View World
To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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Adapt Conquer Cultural Degrade Fullness Intention Meaning Passive

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