if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
ADRIENNE RICHFor now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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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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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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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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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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We have lived with violence far too long.
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