It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
ADRIENNE RICHWhat would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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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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To do something very common, in my own way.
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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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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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