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Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose QUOTES

Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose QUOTES

1 " The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else. "

― Adrienne Rich , Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose

2 " 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 , Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose

3 " 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 , Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose

4 " There is nothing North Americans seem to fear so much as manipulation, probably because at some level we know that we belong to a deeply manipulative system. "

― Adrienne Rich , Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose

5 " The wave changed instantly by rock; the rock changed by the wave returning over and over. "

― Adrienne Rich , Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose

6 " When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them "

― Adrienne Rich , Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose