The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
ADRIENNE RICHI am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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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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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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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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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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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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