Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Wherever in this city, screens flicker with pornography, with science-fiction vampires, victimized hirelings bending to the lash, we also have to walk… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The urge to leap across feminism to "human liberation" is a tragic and dangerous mistake. It deflects us from our real sources… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Pictures form and dissolve in my head: we are walking in a city you fled, came back to and come back to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“RAUSCHENBERG’S BED How a bed once dressed with a kindly quilt becomes unsleepable site of anarchy What body holes expressed their exaltation loathing… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
“Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
