Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
ADRIENNE RICHFalse history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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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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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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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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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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