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.
ADRIENNE RICHThe kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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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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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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