Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
ADRIENNE RICHMarriage is lonelier than solitude.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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