Adrienne Rich Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Children, War

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

• 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

  Passion, Animal, Air

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

• The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

  Adrienne Rich

  Passion, Mind, Obscurity

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970”, p.201, W. W. Norton & Company

• White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness - that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.

  Adrienne Rich

  Hate, Passion, White

• ... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

  Adrienne Rich

  Passion, Poetry, Survival

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company

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