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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
Feminist
Peace Activist
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Baltimore
Maryland
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Adrienne Cécile Rich
Adrienne Riche
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process it is not an identity for all time.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.
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When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
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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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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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