Adrienne Rich

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#concentration #everything #language #our #poetry

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#any #day #false #gets #history

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#artifice #avoid #cannot #cheating #honesty

The moment of change is the only poem. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#change #moment #only #poem

Lying is done with words and also with silence. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#done #lying #silence #words

Life on the planet is born of woman. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#life #planet #woman

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#coming #head #i #keep #know

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#also #awakening #confusing #consciousness #disorienting

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#creating #her #more #possibility #she

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#sleeps #thinking #woman