I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a… — 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
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within… — 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
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into… — 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
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