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Adrienne Rich

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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Art Come Committed Desire Economic Enormous Institution Poetry Require Social
Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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Assumption Elemental Entangled Lurk Mesh Motherhood Relation
I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Alive Born Delight Extraneous Giving Offered
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Bear Destruction Longer Scar Witness
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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Bodies Body Control Fully Human Intelligence Life Natural Order Physical Unity
Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Abortion Deep Desperate First Herself Violence Woman
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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Authorities Authority Certain Face Life Power Prime Rarely Woman
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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Body Complexity Desire Dream Fecundity Struggle Struggling Truth Unconcious
It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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Children Day Eye Message Mothers Smile Stroking Read Touch
It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Important Long Optimism Pessimism Possess Term
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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Gay Lesbian Men People Possibilities Solidarity Suffer Thinking
Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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Aspiration Easy Fall Mean Refuse Responsibility Sell Shallow Solution Talent Yourself
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Forever Mean Taking Talk Trip
There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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Country Incomprehension Institution Male Political Power Real Speaking
It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Beyond Existence Own Poet Risk Some Survival

Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

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