Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
ADRIENNE RICHThe beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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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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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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An honorable human relationship … 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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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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