A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
ADRIENNE RICHand I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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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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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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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- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- 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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