It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
ADRIENNE RICHThere 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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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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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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