In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
ADRIENNE RICHOnly where there is language is there world.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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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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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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