Adrienne Rich Quotes, Dogma Quotes, Poet Quotes

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

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A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

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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...?

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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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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.

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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.

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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

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There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

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Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine

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...you look at me like an emergency

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I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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