Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
ADRIENNE RICHI choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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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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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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