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Adrienne Rich Quotes

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle Picture Quote #1

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome Picture Quote #1

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see Picture Quote #1

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors Picture Quote #1

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth Picture Quote #1

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope Picture Quote #1

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing Picture Quote #1

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths Picture Quote #1

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness Picture Quote #1

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality Picture Quote #1

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know Picture Quote #1

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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves Picture Quote #1

The moment of change is the only poem Picture Quote #1

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple Picture Quote #1

I write for the still fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well Picture Quote #1

If you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces Picture Quote #1

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread Picture Quote #1

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up Picture Quote #1

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors Picture Quote #1

Yet we can't wait for the undamaged to make our connections for us; we can't wait to speak until we are wholly clear and righteous. There is no purity, and, in our lifetimes, no end to this process Picture Quote #1

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival Picture Quote #1

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We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear Picture Quote #1

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes Picture Quote #1

The true nature of poetry. The drive to connect. The dream of a common language Picture Quote #1

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political Picture Quote #1

Lying is done with words and also with silence Picture Quote #1

The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind Picture Quote #1

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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see (Adrienne Rich Quotes) There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth (Adrienne Rich Quotes) One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope (Adrienne Rich Quotes) When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing (Adrienne Rich Quotes) When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The moment of change is the only poem (Adrienne Rich Quotes) It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I write for the still fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well (Adrienne Rich Quotes) If you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces (Adrienne Rich Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Adrienne Rich Quotes) If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread (Adrienne Rich Quotes) If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up (Adrienne Rich Quotes) No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Yet we can't wait for the undamaged to make our connections for us; we can't wait to speak until we are wholly clear and righteous. There is no purity, and, in our lifetimes, no end to this process (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival (Adrienne Rich Quotes) We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear (Adrienne Rich Quotes) A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The true nature of poetry. The drive to connect. The dream of a common language (Adrienne Rich Quotes) War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Lying is done with words and also with silence (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind (Adrienne Rich Quotes)

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