Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — 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
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been,… — 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
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is… — 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
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
