Stills Quotes by Adrienne Rich

12 Stills quotes by Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich’s 12 brief meditations on stillness present a nuanced, poetic take on calm. Her words invite you to pause and consider the subtle strength found in quiet moments.

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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and…

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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a…

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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,…

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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly…

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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still…

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not…

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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half…

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That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity,…

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In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or…

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“Streets closed, emptied by force Guns at corners with open mouths and eyes Memory speaks: You cannot live on me alone you…

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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: it keeps…

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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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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…

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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution…

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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

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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 in the…

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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

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