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Books Quotes by Adrienne Rich

13 Books quotes by Adrienne Rich

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Adrienne Rich’s 13 reflections on books, though brief, pack a resonant punch. They reveal how reading can be an act of resistance, a source of solidarity, and a catalyst for personal awakening, making this a solid starting point for exploring her perspective.

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“Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act”

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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

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“No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we’re not heroines, they happen in our lives like car crashes,…

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A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it…

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“We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a…

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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings…

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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life…

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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone…

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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let…

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“[[diving into the wreck]] First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade…

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“A lot is being said today about the influence that the myths and images of women have on all of us who…

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“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to…

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“First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put on the…

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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“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…

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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

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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…

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“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…

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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…

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Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed…

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... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps…

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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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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…

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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution…

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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the…

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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

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