“Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are disturbed as to how, by, and against whom… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“- this is where I live now. If you had known me once, you'd still know me now though in a different… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Origins and History of Consciousness III. It’s simple to wake from sleep with a stranger, dress, go out, drink coffee, enter a… — 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
If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“in every room, the furniture reflects you larger than life, or dwindling” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“It isn’t that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand everything, or tell you everything at once, or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past… — 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
