Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
ADRIENNE RICHLying is done with words and also with silence.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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