Best Adrienne Rich Words
- ...you look at me like an emergency Emergencies
- Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls. Inspirational
- and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will… Ask
- Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. Liquid
- What kind of beast would turn its life into words? Beast
- I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction… Body
- If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end. Choose
- Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. Assumption
- To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical… Allow
- My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after… Age
- It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple All
- Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own… Brain
- What we see, we see and seeing is changing Changing
- Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever… Biographies
- Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has… Alike
- The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. Afford
- I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help… Born
- No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal… Air
- For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden… Capacity
- To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved… Across
- Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious… Action
- When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. Forever
- To do something very common, in my own way. Common
- If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with… Bed
- I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It… Among
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