and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
ADRIENNE RICHIn 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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