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.
ADRIENNE RICHThere 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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