I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.

Adrienne Rich

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I feel more helpless with you than without you.

Adrienne Rich


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There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Adrienne Rich

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...you look at me like an emergency

Adrienne Rich

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Love, our subject:
we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

Adrienne Rich

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the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,
the lost brother, the twin ---

for him did we leave our mothers,
deny our sisters, over and over?

did we invent him, conjure him
over the charring log,

nights, late, in the snowbound cabin
did we dream or scry his face

in the liquid embers,
the man-who-would-dare-to-know-us?

It was never the rapist:
it was the brother, lost,

the comrade/twin whose palm
would bear a lifeline like our own:

decisive, arrowy,
forked-lightning of insatiate desire

It was never the crude pestle, the blind
ramrod we were after:

merely a fellow-creature
with natural resources equal to our own.

Adrienne Rich

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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

Adrienne Rich


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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.

Adrienne Rich

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[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Adrienne Rich

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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

Adrienne Rich


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