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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.

Adrienne Rich

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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
Truth
Even
Thing
Increasing
Complexity
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Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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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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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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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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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Abortion is violence a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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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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To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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