Best Adrienne Rich Quotes
- We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it… All
- The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go… All
- You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred… Another Name
- A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'” Artist
- Experience is always larger than language. Always Larger
- Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In… Cake
- It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so… Beginning
- False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. All
- Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short. Aspiration
- To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation,… Dream
- Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations. Cloning
- Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. Art
- One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all… Affect
- There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity… Art
- One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to… Another Body
- When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths. Healing
- I came to explore the wreck. Came
- We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly… Alter
- The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle. Live
- The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for… Actual
- Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome. Break
- When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you… Authority
- A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being. Country
- There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power… Art
- I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a… Believe
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