A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
ADRIENNE RICH… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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