I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
ADRIENNE RICHI choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
ADRIENNE RICH