Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
ADRIENNE RICHLife on the planet is born of woman.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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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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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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and 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.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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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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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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