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Quotes from Arts of the Possible — Adrienne Rich

1929–2012 United States

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I believe in the necessity for a poetic language untethered from the compromised language of state and media.

Arts of the Possible (2000)

A new century, even a new technology, doesn't of itself produce newness. It is live human beings, looking in all directions, who will do this.

Arts of the Possible (2000)

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.-both leaders with large constituencies-had been murdered just as each was unscrolling a map on which race and class intersected in a shared landscape.

Arts of the Possible (2000)

one period's necessary strategies can mutate into the monsters of a later time.

Arts of the Possible (2000)

I still believe what I wrote in 1971: A change in the of sexual identity is essential if we are not to see the old political order reassert itself in every new revolution.

Arts of the Possible (2000)

Most biographers of women still fail to recognize that a woman's central relationship can be to her work, even as lovers come and go. ("Raya Dunayevskaya's Marx")

Arts of the Possible (2000)

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be. (from "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying")

Arts of the Possible (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adrienne Rich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.