Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
ADRIENNE RICHThe materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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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.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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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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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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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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