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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

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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
Miracle
Two
Together
Live
Think
Thinking
People

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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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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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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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To write as if your life depended on it to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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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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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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