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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.

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.


Adrienne Rich  Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (/ædriːɛn/;[lacks stress] May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century",[1][2] and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse."[3] Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum"; which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity which has impacted and even filled women's lives.[4]

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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

    Adrienne Rich  Adrienne Rich   
 Tags: Life Love Mother Passion War Child
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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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 Tags: Live Living You Burn Desire Will
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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

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 Tags: Vision Thinking Language Process Old
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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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 Tags: Relationship Power Poetry Universe
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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.

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 Tags: Life Women Rejection Existence Way
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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.

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 Tags: Change Women Society Will More Far
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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 Tags: Woman Thinking Monsters Sleeps
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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