Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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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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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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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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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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