There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
ADRIENNE RICHYoung people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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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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