I came to explore the wreck.
ADRIENNE RICHThe liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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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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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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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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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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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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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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