All new learning looks at first like chaos.
ADRIENNE RICHTo seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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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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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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