One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
ADRIENNE RICHThere must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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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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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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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.
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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