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 RICHWhen a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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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 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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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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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 we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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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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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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