When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
ADRIENNE RICHThe mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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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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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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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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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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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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