Adrienne Rich Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

  Adrienne Rich

  Life, Respect, Believe

• A life I didn't choose
  chose me: even
  my tools are the wrong ones
  for what I have to do.

  Adrienne Rich

  Life, Tools

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

• We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

  Adrienne Rich

  Life, Memories, Way

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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

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