Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — 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… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
