The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
ADRIENNE RICHThe moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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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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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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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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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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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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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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