Quote by Adrienne Rich Download Open image ““...because even the alphabet is precious.”” — Adrienne Rich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.” — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find… — Mark R. Trost Copy Share Image
“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.” — Clay Susan Griffith Copy Share Image
“Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?” — Theresa Rebeck Copy Share Image
“That's the beauty of the text, I find. You can key in things you would never say, and it hardly hurts a bit.” — Chris Lynch Copy Share Image
“I felt mildly peculiar to be treasuring love letters for their grammar, but there was nothing else I could treasure them for.” — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
“Letters were safe. They were words, easy to read if enjoyable and stop reading if hurtful.” — Kasie West Copy Share Image
“They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice… — Melina Marchetta 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
