That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
ADRIENNE RICHHow we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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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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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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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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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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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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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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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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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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