Adrienne Rich Quotes, Greed Quotes, May Quotes

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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I came to explore the wreck.

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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, 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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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

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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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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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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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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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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

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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 is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.

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