In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
ADRIENNE RICHWhat I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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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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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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