Adrienne Rich: Quotes about life

Adrienne Rich was American poet, essayist and feminist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“What kind of beast would turn its life into words?”

Adrienne Rich

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

Life

“False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news
False history gets written every day…
The lesbian archaeologist watches herself
sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing,
asking the clay all questions but her own.”

Adrienne Rich

Turning the Wheel (1981), section 2

Life , Truth , History , Question

“The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps—no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.”

Adrienne Rich

What Is Found There (1993), ch. 11

Life , Search , Silence , Memory