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Adrienne Rich Quotes

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see Picture Quote #1

We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us Picture Quote #1

When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing Picture Quote #1

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal Picture Quote #1

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative Picture Quote #1

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included Picture Quote #1

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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming Picture Quote #1

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life Picture Quote #1

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five Picture Quote #1

The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence Picture Quote #1

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary Picture Quote #1

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger Picture Quote #1

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As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry Picture Quote #1

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide? Picture Quote #1

A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do Picture Quote #1

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty Picture Quote #1

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free Picture Quote #1

The thing I came for: The wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth the drowned face always staring toward the sun Picture Quote #1

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We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear Picture Quote #1

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up Picture Quote #1

And I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other Picture Quote #1

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end Picture Quote #1

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple Picture Quote #1

I write for the still fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well Picture Quote #1

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If you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces Picture Quote #1

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread Picture Quote #1

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors Picture Quote #1

Yet we can't wait for the undamaged to make our connections for us; we can't wait to speak until we are wholly clear and righteous. There is no purity, and, in our lifetimes, no end to this process Picture Quote #1

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival Picture Quote #1

The moment of change is the only poem Picture Quote #1

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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see (Adrienne Rich Quotes) We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us (Adrienne Rich Quotes) When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal (Adrienne Rich Quotes) We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included (Adrienne Rich Quotes) You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary (Adrienne Rich Quotes) In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger (Adrienne Rich Quotes) As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry (Adrienne Rich Quotes) They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide? (Adrienne Rich Quotes) A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free. (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The thing I came for: The wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth the drowned face always staring toward the sun (Adrienne Rich Quotes) We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear (Adrienne Rich Quotes) If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up (Adrienne Rich Quotes) And I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other (Adrienne Rich Quotes) If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end (Adrienne Rich Quotes) It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I write for the still fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well (Adrienne Rich Quotes) If you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces (Adrienne Rich Quotes) If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread (Adrienne Rich Quotes) No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Yet we can't wait for the undamaged to make our connections for us; we can't wait to speak until we are wholly clear and righteous. There is no purity, and, in our lifetimes, no end to this process (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The moment of change is the only poem (Adrienne Rich Quotes)

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