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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
ADRIENNE RICH

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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Death Diminish Diminishes Woman
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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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.
ADRIENNE RICH

Door Limit Male Politics Return Revolution Same Tolerance
I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
ADRIENNE RICH

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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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Cutting Enough Flesh Open Ripped Scar
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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Breath Heart Short Simple Take

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