The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. Adrienne Rich More Quotes by Adrienne Rich More Quotes From Adrienne Rich The moment of change is the only poem. Adrienne Rich poetry change healing 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 pain suicide death It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness Adrienne Rich resentment nerves suffering All new learning looks at first like chaos. Adrienne Rich chaos looks firsts A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. Adrienne Rich scar cutting flesh Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls. Adrienne Rich wall subjects ivy In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior. Adrienne Rich educational believe school Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time. Adrienne Rich motherhood identity children I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings Adrienne Rich splitting Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust. Adrienne Rich dust grief heart I long to create something Adrienne Rich writing long knowledge The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political Adrienne Rich political body feelings 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 light change people There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging. Adrienne Rich males political real 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. Adrienne Rich effort order art It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture. Adrienne Rich issues integrity commitment 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 alternatives imagination challenges In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash. Adrienne Rich cutting light self A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being. Adrienne Rich patriotism soul country I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. Adrienne Rich dignity art thinking
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