Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
ADRIENNE RICHI wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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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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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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