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Adrienne Rich

"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

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Donna Grant

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Donna Grant

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Donna Grant

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The crown of literature is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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Donna Grant

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

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Adrienne Rich
"It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful."

Time

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Adrienne Rich
"Lying is done with words and also with silence."

Deception

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Adrienne Rich
"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

Events

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Adrienne Rich
"Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling."

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Adrienne Rich
"A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire."

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Adrienne Rich
"Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women."

Life

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Adrienne Rich
"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...?"

Death

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Adrienne Rich
"Life on the planet is born of woman."

Life

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Adrienne Rich
"The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell."

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Adrienne Rich
"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."

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