Adrienne Rich Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Voice Quotes

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

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

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

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Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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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.

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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.

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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

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...you look at me like an emergency

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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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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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

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I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.

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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

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Only where there is language is there world.

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What we see, we see and seeing is changing

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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness - that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.

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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

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