Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
ADRIENNE RICH
Life on the planet is born of woman.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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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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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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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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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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