I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I don't want to hear how he beat her after the earthquake, tore up her writing, threw the kerosene lantern into her… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block,… — 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
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to… — 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
