The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
ADRIENNE RICHA patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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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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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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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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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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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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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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To do something very common, in my own way.
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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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The moment of change is the only poem.
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