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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
Feminist
Peace Activist
Poet
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Adrienne Cécile Rich
Adrienne Riche
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from Splittings
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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...you look at me like an emergency
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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts hence, grappling with hard work.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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