"The impulse to create begins--often terribly and fearfully--in a tunnel of silence."
--Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible, p. 150
"For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt--of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on Sunday morning at 7 a.m., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning death--while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of being silent and impotent and alone, while we taste new possibilities and strengths."
--Audre Lorde, Poetry is Not a Luxury
"Understanding, as distinguished from having correct information and scientific knowledge, is a complicated process which never produces unequivocal results. It is an unending activity by which, in constant change and variation, we come to terms with and reconcile ourselves to reality, that is, try to be at home in the world."
--Hannah Arendt, "Understanding and Politics" in Essays in Understanding
"In making poetry, or an kind of art, we're translating into a medium--in this case language--the contents of our consciousness, wherever they may come from, let alone the huge underground beneath consciousness."
--Adrienne Rich, "Some questions from the profession" in Arts of the Possible
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