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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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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.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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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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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.
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