Adrienne Rich Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.

  Adrienne Rich

  Teacher, Mirrors, Individual Strength

• 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 patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

  Adrienne Rich

  Country, Soul, Patriotism

  Adrienne Rich (2012). “Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012: 1971–2012”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

• Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

  Adrienne Rich

  Running, Children, Past

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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