You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
ADRIENNE RICHThese scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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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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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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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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