I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity,… — 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
