Adrienne Rich: Quotes about life

Adrienne Rich was American poet, essayist and feminist. Explore interesting quotes on life.

Adrienne Rich: 102 quotes9 likes

“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”

“The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.”

“What kind of beast would turn its life into words?”

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

“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.”

Turning the Wheel (1981), section 2

“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.”

What Is Found There (1993), ch. 11