Best quotes by Adrienne Rich on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Adrienne Rich on Poetry

• ‟ The moment of change is the only poem.

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• ‟ Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

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• ‟ At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

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• ‟ Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

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• ‟ 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 when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

  - Adrienne Rich