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Experience is always larger than language.

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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
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Adrienne Cécile Rich
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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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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite) we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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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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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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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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As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
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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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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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