Mean Quotes by Adrienne Rich

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

— Adrienne Rich

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

— Adrienne Rich

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

— Adrienne Rich

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and…

— Adrienne Rich

What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope? You yourself must change…

— Adrienne Rich

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something…

— Adrienne Rich

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means…

— Adrienne Rich

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can…

— Adrienne Rich

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,…

— Adrienne Rich

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and…

— Adrienne Rich

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always…

— Adrienne Rich

I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone…

— Adrienne Rich

To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your…

— Adrienne Rich