The moment of change is the only poem.
Interpretation
Change is a powerful and transformative experience that can inspire creativity and reflection.
Adrienne Rich's quote suggests that significant moments of transformation in our lives are akin to poetry, emphasizing their beauty, depth, and meaning. It highlights the idea that change can be a profound source of inspiration and expression, allowing us to explore our emotions and experiences in unique and artistic ways.
In practice
During a graduation speech to encourage students to embrace their future.
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'β
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.
Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
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