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

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“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.”

“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.”

“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

“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.”

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

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

Source: Diving Into the Wreck

“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.”

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

“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.”