When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
ADRIENNE RICHThe unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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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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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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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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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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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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