"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
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Poetry
― Adrienne Rich
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- "The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival."
- "The moment of change is the only poem."
- "Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."― Vladimir Nabokov
- "If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."― Jim Morrison
- "Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation."― Wislawa Szymborska