Adrienne Rich Quotes - Page 6

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• Can you remember? when we thought
  the poets taught how to live?

  Adrienne Rich

  Life, Poetry, Taught

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.

  Adrienne Rich

  Philosophy, Past, Wind

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• [The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Risk, Survival, Use

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• We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.

  Adrienne Rich

  People, Support, Groups

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

  Adrienne Rich

  Desire, Might, Revolutionary

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• I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, Health Education, Poetry

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Song, Art, Inspiration

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

  Adrienne Rich

  Death, Suicide, Pain

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

  Adrienne Rich

  Wall, Ivy, Subjects

  Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.386, W. W. Norton & Company

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• TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

  Adrienne Rich

  Television, Tvs, Kind

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• The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

  Adrienne Rich

  Change, Light, People

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

  Adrienne Rich

  Religious, Law, Giving

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• For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mean, Way, Capacity

  Adrienne Rich (2010). “A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008”, p.143, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mind, Trying, Relief

  1971 TheWill to Change,'Planetarium'.

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• 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

  Imagination, Challenges, Alternatives

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

  Adrienne Rich

  Artist, Self, Sentimental

  Adrienne Rich (2010). “A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

  Adrienne Rich

  Men, Body, Revolutionary

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Only where there is language is there world.

  Adrienne Rich

  World, Language

  1969 Leaflets,'The Demon Lover'.

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• Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

  Adrienne Rich

  Psychics, Stories, Want

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• Weather abroad
  and weather in the heart alike come on
  Regardless of prediction.

  Adrienne Rich

  Heart, Weather, Predictions

  1951 A Change ofWorld,'StormWarnings'.

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• ...you look at me like an emergency

  Adrienne Rich

  Looks, Emergencies, Look At Me

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Two

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• What we see, we see and seeing is changing

  Adrienne Rich

  Seeing

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Son, Men

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.123, W. W. Norton & Company

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• "Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

  Adrienne Rich

  Marketing, Culture, Commodity

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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