We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
ADRIENNE RICHTo do something very common, in my own way.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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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 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
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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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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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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