Adrienne Rich Quotes - Page 8

• I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Thinking, Dignity

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.52, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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  Vision, Goes On, Claims

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• El arte y la literatura han proporcionado a muchas personas el alivio de sentirse conectadas, nos han sacado del aislamiento. Nos han hecho saber que alguien más respiraba y soñaba y tenía relaciones sexuales y amaba y se enfurecía y conocía la soledad igual que nosotros.

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  Art, Sex, Loneliness

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

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• Pienso en las posibilidades de empatía, de solidaridad mutua entre gays y lesbianas, no simplemente como personas que sufren la homofobia, sino como personas que también son extremadamente creativas, activas y tienen una comprensión particular de la condición humana.

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  Gay, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

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• Vemos a diario que nuestras vidas son terribles y pequeñas, sin continuidad, comprables y vendibles en cualquier momento, meros parpadeos en una pantalla, que así es como vivimos ahora. La memoria comercializada como nostalgia; el terror reducido a mero suspense, a melodrama.

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  Life, Memories, Way

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

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  Skins, Together, Different

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

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  Ideas, Generations, Television

  Fuente: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

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  Men, Body, Revolutionary

  Adrienne Rich (1976). "De la maternidad nacida mujer como experiencia e institución".

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• The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.

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  Voice, Political, Asking

  Fuente: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming "support-groups" or therapy groups.

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  Thinking, Support, Needs

  Fuente: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world, if poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.

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  War, Book, World

  Fuente: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• A language is a map of our failures

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  Maps, Language

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Poemas, 1963-2000”, p.70, Editorial Renacimiento

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• La poesía llega a lugares de nosotros que se supone que ignoramos o de los que desconfiamos, que se perciben como subversivos o no útiles, en lo que rápidamente se está conociendo como cultura global.

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  Culture, Becoming, Mistrust

  Fuente: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

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  Madre, Hijos, Hombres

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• In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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  Silence, World, Violence

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

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  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

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  Teacher, Mirrors, World

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• Sigo volviendo a ti en mi cabeza, pero no podrías saberlo, y no tengo carbones.

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  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Adrienne Rich (1971). “The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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  Greed, May, Littles

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• Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

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  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ... en una historia de ruptura espiritual, un pacto social construido sobre la fantasía y los secretos colectivos, la poesía se hace más necesaria que nunca: mantiene los acuíferos subterráneos fluyendo; es la voz líquida que puede atravesar la piedra.

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  Spiritual, Aquifers, Voice

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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  Passion, Poetry, Survival

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company

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

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  Liars, Lying, Silence

  Adrienne Rich (2002). "Artes de lo posible: Ensayos y conversaciones", p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

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  Motherhood, Assumption, Mesh

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

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  Daughter, Mother, Confusion

  Adrienne Rich (1976). "De la maternidad nacida mujer como experiencia e institución".

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