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All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". — Swami Vivekananda

For every bandaged wound
I'll scrape another open — Adrienne Rich

Victories turned inside out
But no surrender
Cemeteries of remorse
The beaten champion sobbing
Ghosts move in to shield his tears — Adrienne Rich

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. — Adrienne Rich

A true philosopher must never give up. — Jostein Gaarder

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language. — Adrienne Rich

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own. — Thomas Browne

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security. — Andrew Card

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

A language is a map of our failures — Adrienne Rich

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. — Adrienne Rich

To learn how to use a sword, one must first master when to use a sword. — R.A. Salvatore

Nothing got more serious than allowing a tortoise to crawl across your kitchen floor. — J. Lynn

Everybody is hungry in this country, even the rich men are hungry, but nobody is honest. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. — Carol S. Dweck

...you look at me like an emergency — Adrienne Rich

Reality, the oppressor's tongue. — Adrienne Rich

It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment
that explodes in poetry. — Adrienne Rich

The best of humanity is philosophy. — Kedar Joshi

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. — Adrienne Rich

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. — Adrienne Rich

I choose to love this time for once
with all my intelligence
-from Splittings — Adrienne Rich

He's completely unspoiled by failure. — Noel Coward

Sophie at sixteen," he remembered. "Christ. She was
like a lightning bolt. And she knew it. Irritated the hell out of me. — Nora Roberts

But from here on
I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening
-from A Woman Dead in Her Forties — Adrienne Rich

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire. — Adrienne Rich

We can no longer rely on the rules of the past to win. — Josh Linkner

[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. — Adrienne Rich

I'm rubber and you're glue," I told Satan, " and everything that bounces of me sticks to you. — MaryJanice Davidson

You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing. — Marie Luise Kaschnitz

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

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others. — Confucius

Passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry. — Adrienne Rich

To do something very common, in my own way. — Adrienne Rich

Love, our subject:
we've trained it like ivy to our walls. — Adrienne Rich