Poet Adrienne Rich Quotes

#1. Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around, said the poet Adrienne Rich.

Alfie Kohn

#2. Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

M. Russell Ballard

#3. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Gretchen Rubin

#4. I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.

Donald Trump

#5. Never treat your fear as an enemy; it's a friend in disguise, only if we are able to recognize its worth.

Mayank S. Sengar

#6. I am at one with my duality.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

Jack McDevitt

#8. Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us will be proved right ...

Dennis Prager

#9. I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

Andrew Marr

#10. Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.

John Kricfalusi

#11. Why would science ever recognize God;
that would make [them] accountable for their crimes against [him].

Craig Smedley

#12. Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

Holly Black

#13. I am quite determined to be mistress of my own fate, Mrs. Clutterthorpe, but I do sympathize with how strange it must sound to you. It is not your fault that you are entirely devoid of imagination. I blame your education

Deanna Raybourn

#14. I could either wait it out or pack my bags, but I could't force a confrontation with a man who refused to be confronted. So I did what a lot of women do: I kept my head in the sand. And I waited for winter to be over.

Christina Bartolomeo

#15. It's no picnic up there in the egosphere.

Philip Roth

#16. I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful.

Laini Taylor

#17. As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

Adrienne Rich

#18. [The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

Adrienne Rich