There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
ADRIENNE RICHWomen’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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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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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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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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