Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
ADRIENNE RICHWe see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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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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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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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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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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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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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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