Adrienne Rich - Touch Quotes

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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.

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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

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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.

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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

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