The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
ADRIENNE RICHI am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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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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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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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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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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