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Adrienne Rich

I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Began Feel Heard Movement Resonating Voice
Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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Angry Darkest Embittered Grief Most Stricken
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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Adequate Art Dysfunction Hope Language Occasion Particular Search Stand
Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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Believe Description Language Old Transform
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Back Carbon Coming Head Keep Know
I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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Call Jewels Love Sex Tale Year
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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Art Assume Blood Falsely Force Inspiration Possession Question Relation Song Supernatural Universal
The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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Actual Another Illuminate Important Most Possibilities Woman
There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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Country Incomprehension Institution Male Political Power Real Speaking
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Body Control Man Nothing Revolutionary Women
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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Believe Choice Deal Inspirational Keep Language Live Moving Paralyzed Something
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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Authority Disequilibrium Mirror Moment Psychic Teacher World
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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Children Love Loving Past Purpose Run Running Rush Soul Worth
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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False Glamour Longer Mistrust Performance Poverty Theatricality Transcendental
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Depended Life Must Read Writing

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