Dreams Quotes by Adrienne Rich

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

— Adrienne Rich

... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being

— Adrienne Rich

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

— Adrienne Rich

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room…

— Adrienne Rich

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

— Adrienne Rich

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still…

— Adrienne Rich

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

and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on…

— Adrienne Rich

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the…

— Adrienne Rich

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still…

— Adrienne Rich

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you…

— Adrienne Rich

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world…

— Adrienne Rich

“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

“The urge to leap across feminism to "human liberation" is a tragic and dangerous mistake. It deflects us from our real sources…

— Adrienne Rich

“Pictures form and dissolve in my head: we are walking in a city you fled, came back to and come back to…

— Adrienne Rich

“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