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Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
American Poet
Born: May 16, 1929
Died: Mar 27, 2012
Also Change Life Truth Woman Women
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. Adrienne Rich
Journey Memories Events Complicated Past Every Delusions Real False
Lying is done with words and also with silence. Adrienne Rich
Silence Words Lying Also Done
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative. Adrienne Rich
Vision Old Language Feeling Every Thinking Resource Our Possess Running Remains Still Revolutionary May Process Transformative Inadequate Might Cycles Technological
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide? Adrienne Rich
Life Death World Pain Suicide Our Rule Worse Some Than Famine Order While Us Persuade Belongs
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. Adrienne Rich
Work Truth Art Honesty Cheating Must Through Artifice Cannot Avoid Whose
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. Adrienne Rich
Other Our Strike Strikes Out Physical Mental Divided Taken Most Tied Mothers Go Often Children Form Breakdown Worker Each Homes Compassionate Bonds
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. Adrienne Rich
Life Love War Needs Survival Battle Mother Passion Sickness Poverty Become Exploitation Cheapen Forces Waged Child Human Common Human Life Her
I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power. Adrienne Rich
Time Power Gesture Others State Ourselves Religious Poetry Absolutism Toward Making Concrete Continually Erased Conditions Human Want Disingenuous Jargon Us Serving Violence

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