One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
ADRIENNE RICHThe beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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