No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
ADRIENNE RICHThere is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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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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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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