We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
ADRIENNE RICHChange is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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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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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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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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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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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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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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