To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
ADRIENNE RICHCourage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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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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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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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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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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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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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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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.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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