Adrienne Rich Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

  Adrienne Rich

  Success, Dream, Use It Or Lose It

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

• Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Grief, Love Life

• A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

  Adrienne Rich

  Desire, Might, Revolutionary

• I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

• The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Dream, Struggle, Desire

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

• Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

  Adrienne Rich

  Feelings, Desire, Chamber

• I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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