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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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.Adrienne Rich
Life on the planet is born of woman.
Adrienne Rich
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women.Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
Adrienne Rich
A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this not why, only that we were here like this, together.
Adrienne Rich
As her sons have seen her the mother in patriarchy controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose to bear and nourish the son.
Adrienne Rich
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
Adrienne Rich
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