The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
ADRIENNE RICHWomen’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Increasingly 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.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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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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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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