I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
ADRIENNE RICHFreud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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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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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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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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