Poetry is above all a concentration of the power o... -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 , Poet
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Adrienne Rich was an American poet, essayist, and feminist. She was known for her powerful and evocative poetry that addressed themes of gender, sexuality, and social justice. Rich's literary contributions and her activism have made her a significant figure in contemporary poetry and the feminist movement.

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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 n...
I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time whe...
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe....
The moment of change is the only poem....
'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can be measured and even predicted,...
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news....
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her....
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet....
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still ru...
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events....

Poetry Quotes to Explore

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...