Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
ADRIENNE RICHMotherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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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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I came to explore the wreck.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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