A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.
If I cling to circumstances I could feel
not responsible. Only she who says
she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
Adrienne RichTo read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
Adrienne RichMy heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.
The moment of change is the only poem.
Adrienne RichIt will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple
Tag: final-notations
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
Adrienne RichTag: words lies silence dishonesty
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
Adrienne RichTag: empowerment women feminism self-respect self-determination responsibility independent-thought critical-thinking
[[diving into the wreck]]
First having read the book of myths,
and loaded the camera,
and checked the edge of the knife-blade
[...]
And now: it is easy to forget
what I came for
among so many who have always
lived here...
[...]
the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned face always staring
toward the sun
the evidence of damage
worn by salt and away into this threadbare beauty
the ribs of the disaster
curving their assertion
among the tentative haunters.
[...]
We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to this scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our names do not appear.
Tag: wreck
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