“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.
ADRIENNE RICHTo allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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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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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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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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