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Adrienne Rich Quotes: 9

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city.
The Dream of a Common Language
[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,and somehow, each of us will help the other live,and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
Twenty One Love Poems
...you look at me like an emergency
Diving Into the Wreck
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
I choose to love this time for oncewith all my intelligence-from "Splittings
The Dream of a Common Language
and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim uswhich will we claimhow will we go on livinghow will we touch, what will we knowwhat will we say to each other.
Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls.