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title: "Best Poetry Quotes by Adrienne Rich"
description: "65 Poetry quotes by Adrienne Rich. Plus more from Adrienne Rich and more Poetry sayings from other authors."
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> [In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/in-this-disintegrative-technologically-manic-time-when-public/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [“No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we’re not heroines, they happen in our lives like car crashes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/no-one-s-fated-or-doomed-to-love-anyone-the-accidents-happen-we-re-3/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/poetry-can-t-give-us-the-laws-and-institutions-and-representatives/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [“Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/nothing-can-be-done-but-by-inches-i-write-out-my-life-hour-by-hour/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/you-have-to-give-your-art-everything-you-can-i-don-t-mean-only/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/i-think-many-poets-including-myself-write-both-for-the-voice-and-for/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/over-many-years-so-many-poets-have-touched-my-imagination-and-opened/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/poetry-is-above-all-a-concentration-of-the-power-of-language-which-is/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [ \[The poet\] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/the-poet-is-endowed-to-speak-for-those-who-do-not-have-the-gift-of/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [“I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/i-know-you-are-reading-this-poem-which-is-not-in-your-language/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/in-1945-just-at-the-end-of-world-war-ii-the-american-poet-muriel/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/i-ve-known-great-happiness-in-my-life-along-with-great-darkness-and-a/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/when-the-landscape-buckles-and-jerks-around-when-a-dust-column-of/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/we-may-feel-bitterly-how-little-our-poems-can-do-in-the-face-of/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/there-s-been-real-hostility-toward-political-poetry-in-the-u-s/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/saw-you-walking-barefoot-taking-a-long-look-at-the-new-moon-s-eyelid/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/can-individual-psychic-wounds-really-heal-in-an-abusive-and/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/i-am-uncomfortable-with-talking-of-poetry-as-a-priestly-profession/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/the-unconscious-wants-truth-as-the-body-does-the-complexity-and/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/in-a-history-of-spiritual-rupture-a-social-compact-built-on-fantasy/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/i-am-always-interested-in-the-ways-of-scoring-the-sound-of-the-poem/)

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> [In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/in-the-states-there-has-been-compared-to-the-sixties-and-seventies-a/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> ['Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/storm-warnings-is-a-poem-about-powerlessness-about-a-force-so-much/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/what-i-search-for-continuously-in-my-art-is-adequate-language/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/the-impulse-to-create-begins-often-terribly-and-fearfully-in-a-tunnel/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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## More by Adrienne Rich

> [Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/only-to-have-a-grief-equal-to-all-these-tears/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/responsibility-to-yourself-means-refusing-to-let-others-do-your/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/the-beauty-of-darkness-is-how-it-lets-you-see/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/what-i-search-for-continuously-in-my-art-is-adequate-language/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/well-she-s-long-about-her-coming-who-must-be-more-merciless-to/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/i-think-my-work-comes-out-of-both-an-intense-desire-for-connection/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/popular-culture-entered-my-life-as-shirley-temple-who-was-exactly-my/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/in-a-history-of-spiritual-rupture-a-social-compact-built-on-fantasy/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/it-s-as-if-in-the-mother-s-eyes-her-smile-her-stroking-touch-the/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/the-women-s-movement-appeared-at-a-very-crucial-moment-in-my-life/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/the-word-revolution-itself-has-become-not-only-a-dead-relic-of/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/the-decision-to-feed-the-world-is-the-real-decision-no-revolution-has/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/the-necessity-of-poetry-has-to-be-stated-over-and-over-but-only-to/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/i-think-many-poets-including-myself-write-both-for-the-voice-and-for/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

> [If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/if-i-cling-to-circumstances-i-could-feel-not-responsible-only-she-who/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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                        "text": "“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation.\" ( Defy the Space That Separates , The Nation, October 7, 1996)”",
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                        "text": "In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming \"support-groups\" or therapy groups.",
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                        "text": "'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can be measured and even predicted, it is beyond human control. All 'we' can do is create an interior space against the storm, an enclave of self-protection, though the winds of change till penetrate keyholes and 'unsealed apertures.'",
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