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
To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process,… — 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
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
“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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
