Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
ADRIENNE RICHI don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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.
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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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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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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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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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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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