No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
ADRIENNE RICHIf you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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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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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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