It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
ADRIENNE RICHThe moment of change is the only poem.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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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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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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