Poetry Quote by Adrienne Rich — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,”

“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,”

“...you look at me like an emergency”

“I choose to love this time for once”

“Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true in political situations. The quality and depth of the politics evolving from a group depends in large part on their understanding of honor. Much of what is narrowly termed "politics" seems to rest on a longing for certainty even at the cost of honesty, for an analysis which, once given, need not be re-examined…It isn't that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand everything, or tell you everything at once, or that I can know, beforehand, everything I need to tell you. It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. That we both know we are trying, all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us.”

“Poetry makes nothing happen.”

“As it has been said:”

“The child who is decked with prince’s robes and who has jewelled chains round his neck loses all pleasure in his play; his dress hampers him at every step.”

“I am filled time and again”

“How long your closet held a whiff of you,”

“It was never the way she looked”