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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Adrienne Rich

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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
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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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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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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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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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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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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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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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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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...you look at me like an emergency
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motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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