There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
ADRIENNE RICHI don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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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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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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