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Adrienne Rich quotes: The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit. The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.
Adrienne Rich quotes: To work and suffer is to be at home.All else is scenery ... To work and suffer is to be at home.
All else is scenery ...
Adrienne Rich quotes: Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young. Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.
Adrienne Rich quotes: For every bandaged woundI'll scrape another open For every bandaged wound
I'll scrape another open
Adrienne Rich quotes: Victories turned inside outBut no surrenderCemeteries of remorseThe beaten champion sobbingGhosts move in to shield his tears Victories turned inside out
But no surrender
Cemeteries of remorse
The beaten champion sobbing
Ghosts move in to shield his tears
Adrienne Rich quotes: The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Adrienne Rich quotes: A precise, detached calliper-grip holds the stars and the quarter- moon in arrest: A precise, detached calliper-grip holds the stars and the quarter- moon in arrest:
Adrienne Rich quotes: There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides. There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.
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. 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: When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths. When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
Adrienne Rich quotes: False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
Adrienne Rich quotes: You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness. You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Life on the planet is born of woman. Life on the planet is born of woman.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language. Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.
Adrienne Rich quotes: There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
Adrienne Rich quotes: It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Adrienne Rich quotes: What would it mean to livein a city whose people were changingeach other's despair into hope?You yourself must change it. What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other's despair into hope?
You yourself must change it.
Adrienne Rich quotes: The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself. Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail. Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
Adrienne Rich quotes: The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious. The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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. 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: Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
Adrienne Rich quotes: It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ... It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ...
Adrienne Rich quotes: Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine
Adrienne Rich quotes: Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events
Adrienne Rich quotes: As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
Adrienne Rich quotes: A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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. 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: Any woman's death diminishes me. Any woman's death diminishes me.
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. 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: The moment of change is the only poem. The moment of change is the only poem.
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. 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: The liar has many friends, and leads an existence of great loneliness. The liar has many friends, and leads an existence of great loneliness.
Adrienne Rich quotes: It will take all your heart, it will take all your breathIt will be short, it will not be simple It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple
Adrienne Rich quotes: Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees
Adrienne Rich quotes: I choose to love this time for oncewith all my intelligence-from Splittings I choose to love this time for once
with all my intelligence
-from Splittings
Adrienne Rich quotes: The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
Adrienne Rich quotes: The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot. The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.
The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.
Adrienne Rich quotes: It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealmentthat explodes in poetry. It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment
that explodes in poetry.
Adrienne Rich quotes: The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind. The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again. Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
Adrienne Rich quotes: When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
Adrienne Rich quotes: The thing I came for:[ ... ]the thing itself and not the myth The thing I came for:
[ ... ]
the thing itself and not the myth
Adrienne Rich quotes: We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
Adrienne Rich quotes: Go back so far there is another languagego back far enough the languageis no longer personal. Go back so far there is another language
go back far enough the language
is no longer personal.
Adrienne Rich quotes: We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both. We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
Adrienne Rich quotes: They do not fear the men beneath the tree;They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
Adrienne Rich quotes: I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them. I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Those years you never looked at any of us. Staring into your own eyelids. Like you saw a light there. Can you see me now? Those years you never looked at any of us. Staring into your own eyelids. Like you saw a light there. Can you see me now?
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. 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: ...you look at me like an emergency ...you look at me like an emergency
Adrienne Rich quotes: I came to explore the wreck. I came to explore the wreck.
Adrienne Rich quotes: I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope
Adrienne Rich quotes: I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons
Adrienne Rich quotes: Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Adrienne Rich quotes: You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
Adrienne Rich quotes: I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel. I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
Adrienne Rich quotes: All new learning looks at first like chaos. All new learning looks at first like chaos.
Adrienne Rich quotes: The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness. The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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 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: A dream of tenderness wrestles with all I know of history A dream of tenderness
wrestles with all I know of history
Adrienne Rich quotes: Who neither touched nor spoke?whose nape, whose finger-endsnervelessly lied the hours away? Who neither touched nor spoke?
whose nape, whose finger-ends
nervelessly lied the hours away?
Adrienne Rich quotes: Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others. Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry. Passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.
Adrienne Rich quotes: It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
Adrienne Rich quotes: I feel more helpless with you than without you. I feel more helpless with you than without you.
Adrienne Rich quotes: In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Language is power ... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. Language is power ... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls. Love, our subject:
we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
Adrienne Rich quotes: The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
Adrienne Rich quotes: I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
Adrienne Rich quotes: The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ... The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...
Adrienne Rich quotes: I don't think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope I don't think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope
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. 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: The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see. The beauty of darkness
is how it lets you see.
Adrienne Rich quotes: This world gives no roomto be what we dreamt of being This world gives no room
to be what we dreamt of being
Adrienne Rich quotes: Strangers are an endangered species ... Strangers are an endangered species ...
Adrienne Rich quotes: The mother I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born. The mother I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.
Adrienne Rich quotes: You were a woman walked on a leash.And they dropped you in the end. You were a woman walked on a leash.
And they dropped you in the end.
Adrienne Rich quotes: But from here onI want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening-from A Woman Dead in Her Forties But from here on
I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening
-from A Woman Dead in Her Forties
Adrienne Rich quotes: Marriage is lonelier than solitude. Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
Adrienne Rich quotes: What kind of beast would turn its life into words? What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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. 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 I cling to circumstances I could feelnot responsible. Only she who saysshe did not choose, is the loser in the end. 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: Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire. Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
Adrienne Rich quotes: [Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. [Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
Adrienne Rich quotes: These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know. These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
Adrienne Rich quotes: In every room, the furniture reflects you larger than life, or dwindling In every room, the furniture reflects you larger than life, or dwindling
Adrienne Rich quotes: I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
Adrienne Rich quotes: In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture. In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the
culture.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
Adrienne Rich quotes: I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed. I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed.
Adrienne Rich quotes: A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.' A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'
Adrienne Rich quotes: How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
Adrienne Rich quotes: Can you remember? When we thoughtthe poets taught how to live? Can you remember? When we thought
the poets taught how to live?
Adrienne Rich quotes: The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle. The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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. 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.

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