Adrienne Rich Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.

  Adrienne Rich

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

• When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.

  Adrienne Rich

  Notebook, Prayer, Memories

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

• In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world, if poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.

  Adrienne Rich

  War, Book, World

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

• A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

  Adrienne Rich

  Book, Editors, Chance

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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