Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her… — 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… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in… — 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
[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
No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.” — 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
“ I used myself, let nothing use me. Like being on a private dole, sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt. What… — 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
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. — 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a… — 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
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do. — 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
To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life… — 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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