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Adrienne Rich Quote: “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.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “We must use what we have to invent what we desire.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone’s body with the pain of the world’s body.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “What kind of beast would turn its life into words?”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “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.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “I came to explore the wreck.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Experience is always larger than language.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Life on the planet is born of woman.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “TV has created a kind of false collectivity.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “What we see, we see and seeing is changing.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Any woman’s death diminishes me.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Driving the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge no monument’s in sight but fog prowling Angel Island muffling Alcatraz poems in Cantonese inscribed on fog no icon lifts a lamp here history’s breath blotting the air over Gold Mountain.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Marriage is lonelier than solitude.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.”
Adrienne Rich Quote: “Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.”
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