Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
ADRIENNE RICHWomen have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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 thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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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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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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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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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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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Even 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.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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