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
truth integrity liars
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
moving privilege our-words
We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
truth want-something speak
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
writing voice liquid
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
sleep midnight enough
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
thinking one-direction rivers
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 its five fingers spread.
desire might revolutionary
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
mean aquariums body
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
artist self sentimental
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
love fever
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
dream knows
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
rejection heterosexuality way
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
mind trying shapes
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 of the mind.
running thinking romance
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.