Adrienne Rich Quotes, Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.

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Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

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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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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

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Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.

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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.

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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

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