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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 Picture Quote #1

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth Picture Quote #1

I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch 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

This is where I live now. If you had known me once, you'd still know me now though in a different light and life. This is no place you ever knew me Picture Quote #1

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

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She had to possess the courage to enter, through language, states which most people deny or veil with silence Picture Quote #1

We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth Picture Quote #1

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat Picture Quote #1

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail Picture Quote #1

And yet, protest it if we will, some corner of the mind retains the medieval man, who still keeps watch upon those starry skeins and drives us out of doors at night to gaze at anagrams of light 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

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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

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self deceiving life Picture Quote #1

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die Picture Quote #1

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city Picture Quote #1

For now, poetry has the capacity, in its own ways and by its own means, to remind us of something we are forbidden to see Picture Quote #1

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege Picture Quote #1

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Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word... imagining the existence of something uncreated this poem our lives 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

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude Picture Quote #1

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected Picture Quote #1

I put on the body armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask Picture Quote #1

Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working Picture Quote #1

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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle Picture Quote #1

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself Picture Quote #1

Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power Picture Quote #1

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time 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

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs Picture Quote #1

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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 (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch (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) This is where I live now. If you had known me once, you'd still know me now though in a different light and life. This is no place you ever knew me (Adrienne Rich Quotes) It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment - that explodes in poetry (Adrienne Rich Quotes) She had to possess the courage to enter, through language, states which most people deny or veil with silence (Adrienne Rich Quotes) We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth (Adrienne Rich Quotes) But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail (Adrienne Rich Quotes) And yet, protest it if we will, some corner of the mind retains the medieval man, who still keeps watch upon those starry skeins and drives us out of doors at night to gaze at anagrams of light (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) 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) The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self deceiving life (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die (Adrienne Rich Quotes) No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city (Adrienne Rich Quotes) For now, poetry has the capacity, in its own ways and by its own means, to remind us of something we are forbidden to see (Adrienne Rich Quotes) We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word... imagining the existence of something uncreated this poem our lives (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) Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude (Adrienne Rich Quotes) There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I put on the body armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time (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) The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs (Adrienne Rich Quotes)

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