What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
ADRIENNE RICHThe materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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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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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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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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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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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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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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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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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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