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Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
... 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 (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
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 (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell? (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
There 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 (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being (Adrienne Rich Quotes)
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle (Adrienne Rich Quotes)