Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose Quotes
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“The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
“Perhaps many white North Americans fear an overtly political art because it might persuade us emotionally of what we think we are “rationally” against; it might get us on a level we have lost touch with; undermine the safety we have built for oneselves, remind us of what is better left forgotten.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
“The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
“Time is male
and in his cups drinks to the fair.
Bemused be gallantry we hear
our mediocrities over-prized,
indolence read as abnegation,
slattern thought styled intuition
every lapse forgiven, our crime
only to cast too bold a shadow
or smash the mold straight off.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
and in his cups drinks to the fair.
Bemused be gallantry we hear
our mediocrities over-prized,
indolence read as abnegation,
slattern thought styled intuition
every lapse forgiven, our crime
only to cast too bold a shadow
or smash the mold straight off.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
“The wave changed instantly by rock; the rock changed by the wave returning over and over.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
“When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose