Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
ADRIENNE RICHI guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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I 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.
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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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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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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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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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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