Adrienne Rich Quotes, Risk Quotes, Survival Quotes

[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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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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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

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...you look at me like an emergency

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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

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Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine

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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.

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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.

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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

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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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