Adrienne Rich Quotes, War Quotes, Imagination Quotes

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

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...you look at me like an emergency

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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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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.

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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

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