Adrienne Rich Quotes, Freedom Quotes, War Quotes

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

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

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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.

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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

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

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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

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A language is a map of our failures

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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child

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