It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
ADRIENNE RICH
It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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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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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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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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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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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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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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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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Experience is always larger than language.
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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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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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