Strangers are an endangered species.
ADRIENNE RICHIncreasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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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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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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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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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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