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

“For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.”

“Love, our subject:”

“but from here on”

“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.”

“We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth.”

“Like the moon”

“My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.”

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.”

“But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,”

“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,”

“Her belly ruptures full of parasites,”