What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I wanted to choose words that even you would have to be changed by Take the word of my pulse, loving and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in… — 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
The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail. — 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
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