Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
ADRIENNE RICHThese scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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