How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
ADRIENNE RICHWe 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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 revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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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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