As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
ADRIENNE RICHThe longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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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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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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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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The moment of change is the only poem.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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