Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, And Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Quotes
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.
Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.
But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.
