It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
ADRIENNE RICHThere is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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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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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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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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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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