Adrienne Rich Quotes, Book Quotes, Editors Quotes

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

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There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

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

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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

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

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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

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