Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative … - Adrienne Rich

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I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

Adrienne Rich

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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The moment when a feeling enters the body
is political. This touch is political

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A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

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

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