Adrienne Rich Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• The moment of change is the only poem.

  Adrienne Rich

  Change, Healing, Poetry

  Adrienne Rich (1971). “The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970”, p.47, W. W. Norton & Company

• ... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

  Adrienne Rich

  Spiritual, Aquifers, Voice

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

• I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, Health Education, Poetry

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

• The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.

  Adrienne Rich

  Believe, Poetry, Trying

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

• Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

  Adrienne Rich

  Reality, Poetry, Literature

• Can you remember? when we thought
  the poets taught how to live?

  Adrienne Rich

  Life, Poetry, Taught

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

• ... 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

• 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

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