You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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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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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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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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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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