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 RICHWhat I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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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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