If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell? — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories and false naming's of real events. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“In lying to others we end up lying to ourselves. We deny the importance of an event, or a person, and thus… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“It isn’t that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand everything, or tell you everything at once, or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“FINAL NOTATIONS it will not be simple, it will not be long it will take little time, it will take all your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“WHAT KIND OF TIMES ARE THESE There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from… — 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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