There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
ADRIENNE RICHSince we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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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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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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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 password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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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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