Way Quotes by Adrienne Rich

We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

— Adrienne Rich

To do something very common, in my own way.

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Adrienne Rich

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room…

— Adrienne Rich

I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency…

— Adrienne Rich

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let…

— Adrienne Rich

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a…

— Adrienne Rich

We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a…

— Adrienne Rich

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,…

— Adrienne Rich

... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame…

— Adrienne Rich

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is…

— Adrienne Rich

The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the…

— Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process,…

— Adrienne Rich

I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within…

— Adrienne Rich