Poetry Quote by Cheryl Strayed

“There’s a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called “Splittings” that I thought of when I read your letter. The…

— Cheryl Strayed

“In her insightful Of Woman Born (1976), Adrienne Rich said it very eloquently: “My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I…

— Ina May Gaskin

“Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around,” said the poet Adrienne Rich.”

— Alfie Kohn

Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her…

— Earl Scruggs

“Traveling together into what the poet Adrienne Rich has called ‘the cratered night of female memory,’ they undertook a shared process of self-discovery, working…

— Janet Kaplan

“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery…

— G.K. Chesterton

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while…

— Li-Young Lee

“Graham Newman reports years ago. “Coat-tailing” was the term.”

— Corey Wrenn

I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I…

— Nick Antosca

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became…

— Bob Barker

“A traveling salesman was driving in the country when his car broke down. He hiked several miles to a farmhouse and asked the farmer…

— Anonymous

I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that…

— Dia Mirza