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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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Oswald Chambers
Adrienne Rich
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Born:
May 16, 1929
Died:
March 27, 2012
(aged 82)
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