It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
ADRIENNE RICHWe can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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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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There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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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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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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