I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
ADRIENNE RICHIn a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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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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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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