Strangers are an endangered species.
ADRIENNE RICHEven where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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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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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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