I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
ADRIENNE RICHIf we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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