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.
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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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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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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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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