There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
ADRIENNE RICHThese scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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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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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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