We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
ADRIENNE RICHPracticing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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