Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about… — 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
Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in… — 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
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half… — 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
