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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 Picture Quote #1

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

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

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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

Lying is done with words and also with silence Picture Quote #1

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust Picture Quote #1

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious Picture Quote #1

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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery Picture Quote #1

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire Picture Quote #1

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

An honorable human relationship... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment - that explodes in poetry Picture Quote #1

In the never, still arriving, I find you again: blue absence keeps knowledge alive, makes of October an adjusted lens. The days have almost no clouds left Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I wanted to choose words that even you would have to be changed by Take the word of my pulse, loving and ordinary Send out your signals, hoist your dark scribbled flags but take my hand Picture Quote #1

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes... are maps... I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail Picture Quote #1

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons Picture Quote #1

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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) If you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces (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 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) 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) Lying is done with words and also with silence (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events (Adrienne Rich Quotes) 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 (Adrienne Rich Quotes) An honorable human relationship... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other (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) It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment - that explodes in poetry (Adrienne Rich Quotes) In the never, still arriving, I find you again: blue absence keeps knowledge alive, makes of October an adjusted lens. The days have almost no clouds left (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) I wanted to choose words that even you would have to be changed by Take the word of my pulse, loving and ordinary Send out your signals, hoist your dark scribbled flags but take my hand (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes... are maps... I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail (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)

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