Adrienne Rich Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

  Adrienne Rich

  Country, War, People

• War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

  Adrienne Rich

  War, Imagination, Political

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

• Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

  Adrienne Rich

  War, Imagination, Confusion

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

• In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Voice, Imagination

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

• You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.

  Adrienne Rich

  Hate, Writing, Night

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

• But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Struggle, Imagination, Survival

• Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

  Adrienne Rich

  Years, Imagination, Path

  Source: criticalflame.org

• If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

  Adrienne Rich

  Imagination, Challenges, Alternatives

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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