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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
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Baltimore
Maryland
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Adrienne Cécile Rich
Adrienne Riche
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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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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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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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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An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Any woman's death diminishes me.
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I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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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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For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single I or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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