Adrienne Rich Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

  Adrienne Rich

  Heart, Age, World

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

• It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

  Adrienne Rich

  Heart, Simple, Breaths

  Adrienne Cecile Rich (1951). “Selected poems, 1950-1995”, Salmon Publishing

• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

• in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.

  Adrienne Rich

  Suicide, Heart, Years

• Weather abroad
  and weather in the heart alike come on
  Regardless of prediction.

  Adrienne Rich

  Heart, Weather, Predictions

  1951 A Change ofWorld,'StormWarnings'.

• Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

  Adrienne Rich

  Grief, Heart, Dust

  Adrienne Rich (1971). “The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

• The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.

  Adrienne Rich

  Wall, War, Grief

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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