Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
ADRIENNE RICHWar is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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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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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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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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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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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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