These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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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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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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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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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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