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

Adrienne Rich: 102 quotes 9 likes

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”

Adrienne Rich

For women , Thinking , Learning

“and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us
which will we claim
how will we go on living
how will we touch, what will we know
what will we say to each other.”

Adrienne Rich

“No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,
our animal passion rooted in the city.”

Adrienne Rich book The Dream of a Common Language

Source: The Dream of a Common Language

Imagination , Tree , Passion , Animals

“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”

Adrienne Rich

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

Help

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

Adrienne Rich

Source: Diving Into the Wreck

Learning

“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

Sleep , Universe

“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

Way