In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
ADRIENNE RICHLife on the planet is born of woman.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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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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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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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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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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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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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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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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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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