It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
ADRIENNE RICHThe 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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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 difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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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’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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