Adrienne Rich Short Quotes

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Piece by piece I seem
to re-enter the world.

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Only to have a grief
equal to all these tears!

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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

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The decision to feed the world
is the real decision.

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We who were loved will never
unlive that crippling fever.

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To work and suffer is to be at home.
All else is scenery...

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Split at the root, neither Gentile nor Jew,
Yankee nor Rebel.

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

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I wanted to choose words that even you
would have to be changed by.

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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

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The liar has many friends, and leads an existence of great loneliness.

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Where language and naming are power,
silence is oppression, is violence.

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Memory is a nutriment, and seeds stored for centuries can still germinate.

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
The beak that grips her, she becomes.

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I'd call it love if love
didn't take so many years
but lust too is a jewel.

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Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.

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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

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The mind's passion is all for singling out.
Obscurity has another tale to tell.

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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

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

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Driving at night I feel the Milky Way Streaming above me like the graph of a cry.

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

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How we dwelt in two worlds
the daughters and the mothers
in the kingdom of the sons.

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Much that you need has been lost... We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

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Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

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