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“No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.”

Adrienne Rich

Source: Sources

“I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.”

Adrienne Rich

Source: Diving Into the Wreck

“… you look at me like an emergency”

Adrienne Rich

Source: Diving Into the Wreck

“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.”

Adrienne Rich

“If you think you can grasp me, think again:
my story flows in more than one direction
a delta springing from the riverbed
with its five fingers spread”

Adrienne Rich

Source: Time's Power

“I choose to love this time for once
with all my intelligence

-from "Splittings”

Adrienne Rich book The Dream of a Common Language

Source: The Dream of a Common Language

“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.”

Adrienne Rich

Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”

Adrienne Rich

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

“The moment of change is the only poem.”

Adrienne Rich

“When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.”

Adrienne Rich

“Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”

Adrienne Rich

Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

“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.”

Adrienne Rich

Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

“In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.”

Adrienne Rich

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

“If I cling to circumstances I could feel
not responsible. Only she who says
she did not choose, is the loser in the end.”

Adrienne Rich

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”

Adrienne Rich

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), no. 3
Variant: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.

“Love, our subject:
we've trained it like ivy to our walls.”

Adrienne Rich

“For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.”

Adrienne Rich