Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Richwas an American poet, essayist and radical feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 May 1929
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
Adrienne Rich quotes about
inspirational-life rich-life planets
Life on the planet is born of woman.
silence overcoming break
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
splitting
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings
fake-people memories real
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
people way hard
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
maps treasure damage
The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
country soul patriotism
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
country war imagination
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
thinking two people
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
inspirational believe moving
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.
memories lying letters
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 is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
dream effort vision
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, to respect the effort even where it fails.
looks patterns tiny
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
new-day news made
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.