In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
ADRIENNE RICHI’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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