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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers

In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

Adrienne Rich
Art, Voice, Imagination
Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

Adrienne Rich
Imagination, Challenges, Alternatives
Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

Adrienne Rich
Struggle, Imagination, Survival

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

Adrienne Rich
War, Imagination, Confusion
Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

Adrienne Rich
War, Imagination, Political
Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

Adrienne Rich
Years, Imagination, Path
Source: criticalflame.org

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