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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from Splittings
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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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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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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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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