Quotes by Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich

American Poet

Lived from: 1929 - 2012

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 16 may 1929 Died: 27 march 2012

  • The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

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  • 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.
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  • Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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  • False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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  • I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
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  • In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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  • It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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  • 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.
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  • Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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  • Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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  • The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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  • The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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  • The moment of change is the only poem.
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  • The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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  • 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.
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  • The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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  • They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
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  • 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.
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  • We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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  • When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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  • How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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What are the most famous quotes from Adrienne Rich?

The two most famous quotes from Adrienne Rich are:

  • "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."
  • "Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

When did Adrienne Rich live?

Adrienne Rich was born in 1929 and died in the year 2012.