Top 100 Quotes About Adrienne
#2. You saw what I saw, right? Adrienne doing something nice for Xarissa of her own free will.
I think I did, said G.A
Lunette stared into the unknown. This has to be a sign of the coming apocalypse We are all going to die.
Emily Kirby
#3. Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant feeling of deceiving people. That you know nothing they don't, or couldn't learn on their own if they cared to.
David Sedaris
#4. There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'
Nathan Fillion
#5. Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around, said the poet Adrienne Rich.
Alfie Kohn
#6. Best place to be?" Adrienne asks after a moment.
On the other side of this wall. In my bed, at home. Anywhere with Nathaniel.
"Before," I answer, because I know she'll understand.
Jodi Picoult
#7. Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
John Oates
#8. There's a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called "Splittings" that I thought of when I read your letter. The last two lines of the poem are: "I choose to love this time fore once / with all my intelligence.
Cheryl Strayed
#9. Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.
Kate Clinton
#10. These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.
Tony Hoagland
#11. Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.
Earl Scruggs
#12. People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.
Karen Russell
#13. ...because life is short and you too are thirsty.
Adrienne Rich
#14. Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
Adrienne Clarkson
#15. A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.
Adrienne Bailon
#16. I feel more helpless with you than without you.
Adrienne Rich
#17. Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.
Adrienne Bailon
#18. And yet, protest it if we will,
Some corner of the mind retains
The medieval man, who still
Keeps watch upon those starry skeins
And drives us out of doors at night
To gaze at anagrams of light.
Adrienne Rich
#19. Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
Adrienne Monnier
#20. You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
Adrienne Rich
#21. Is talking the only thing you can do with your mouth?"
Seven flicked a look up. "No."
"Good.
Adrienne Wilder
#22. I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
Adrienne Monnier
#23. But you cannot change your nature. If you are a lonely creature, this cannot be undone. Something will always crop up to remind you.
Adrienne Celt
#24. I choose to love this time for once
with all my intelligence
-from Splittings
Adrienne Rich
#25. Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Adrienne Rich
#26. Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
Adrienne Rich
#28. Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
Adrienne Rich
#29. I know you are reading this poem
in a room where too much has happened for you to bear
where the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on the bed
and the open valise speaks of flight
but you cannot leave yet.
Adrienne Rich
#30. The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
Adrienne Von Speyr
#31. The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
Adrienne Rich
#32. This world gives no room
to be what we dreamt of being
Adrienne Rich
#33. A cave of scars!
ancient, archaic wallpaper
built up, layer on layer
from the earliest, dream-white
to yesterday's, a red-black scrawl
a red mouth slowly closing
Adrienne Rich
#34. The light is a funny thing, Grant. We think it shows us what we need to see, but in reality, it blinds us. That's why I brought you here. I wanted you to see me.
Adrienne Wilder
#35. For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
Adrienne Rich
#36. To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
Adrienne Rich
#38. No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
Adrienne Rich
#39. Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'
Adrienne Bailon
#40. [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
#41. I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.
Adrienne Shelly
#42. Any woman who has moved from the playing fields of male discourse into the realm where women are developing our own descriptions of the world knows the extraordinary sense of shedding, as it were, the encumbrance of someone else's baggage, of ceasing to translate.
Adrienne Rich
#43. As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
Adrienne Rich
#44. Yet we can't wait for the undamaged to make our connections for us; we can't wait to speak until we are wholly clear and righteous. There is no purity, and, in our lifetimes, no end to this process.
Adrienne Rich
#45. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events
Adrienne Rich
#46. joy and sorrow, when they are both lived in God, signify fruitfulness for the apostolate.
Adrienne Von Speyr
#47. Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
Adrienne Rich
#48. When I find a fashion formula I love, I tend to stick to it. There's nothing wrong with wearing a look over and over again, if it suits you and makes you feel great.
Adrienne Maloof
#49. I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.
Adrienne Kennedy
#51. I used myself, let nothing use me.
Like being on a private dole,
sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt.
What life there was, was mine,
now and again to lay
one hand on a warm brick
and touch the sun's ghost
with economical joy.
Adrienne Rich
#52. Lucian's voice rang inside my head, loud and clear, "Move your ass, Elena, and no matter what, trust your reflexes." Relying on my clumsy butt was more like it. I'd made a joke, That was a good sign.
Adrienne Woods
#53. Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
Adrienne Rich
#54. Love, our subject:
we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
Adrienne Rich
#55. In lying to others we end up lying to ourselves. We deny the importance of an event, or a person, and thus deprive ourselves of a part of our lives. Or we use one piece of the past or present to screen out another. Thus we lose faith even in our own lives.
Adrienne Rich
#56. I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.
Adrienne Rich
#57. No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.
Adrienne Clarkson
#58. But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
Adrienne Rich
#59. In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
Adrienne Rich
#60. Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
Adrienne Rich
#62. Hawk?
He gazed up at her, still crouched on the floor, ready to pounce if she so much as moved an inch.
Karen Marie Moning
#63. It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment
that explodes in poetry.
Adrienne Rich
#64. But from here on
I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening
-from A Woman Dead in Her Forties
Adrienne Rich
#65. Things take us hard, no question.
How do you make it, all the way
from here to morning? I touch
you, made of such nerve
and flare and pride and swallowed tears.
Go home. Come to bed. The skies
look in at us, stern.
And this is an old story.
Adrienne Rich
#66. I put a hand between my legs. Yup, everything was still there; then I goosed Peter.
He laughed. "Hey, now ... "
"I was just checking to make sure all the important parts were still attached."
"Jeez, D ...
Adrienne Wilder
#67. After slipping the condom on, he rolled on top of her, shoved her hair out of her face and held it while he got lost in those sea green eyes that, in a darkened room, shined bright.
He wanted her. And it wasn't just the sex. He wanted the whole nutty package.
Adrienne Giordano
#68. Sleep comes hard. I'd rather lie awake and read.
Adrienne Rich
#69. I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!
Adrienne Bailon
#71. When you falter, all eludes.
This is a seasick way,
this almost/never touching, this
drawing-off, this to-and-fro.
Subtlety stalks in your eyes,
your tongue knows what it knows.
I want your secrets - Iwillhave them out.
Seasick, I drop into the sea.
Adrienne Rich
#72. How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
Adrienne Rich
#73. Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.
Adrienne Rich
#74. But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.
Adrienne Rich
#75. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
Adrienne Rich
#76. I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well.
Adrienne Rich
#77. Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
Adrienne Rich
#78. Swatches of color to close the wounds. Lines to tie it down. Layers upon layers, until the sound of their voices formed a hum.
Adrienne Wilder
#79. Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
Adrienne Rich
#80. He is raw sex in a bottle, uncorked. And somebody needs to cork it!
Karen Marie Moning
#81. Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
Adrienne Monnier
#82. My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.
Adrienne Rich
#83. What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
Adrienne Rich
#84. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
Adrienne Rich
#85. I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.
Adrienne Bailon
#86. It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
Adrienne Rich
#87. The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...
Adrienne Rich
#88. When my dreams showed signs
of becoming
politically correct
no unruly images
escaping beyond borders
...
then I began to wonder
Adrienne Rich
#89. It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
Adrienne Rich
#91. Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
Adrienne Rich
#92. Weather abroad
and weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction.
Adrienne Rich
#93. Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Adrienne Rich
#94. The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
Adrienne Rich
#95. Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
Adrienne Rich
#96. Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine
Adrienne Rich
#97. Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
Adrienne Monnier
#98. Language is power ... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
Adrienne Rich
#99. I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.
Adrienne Bailon
#100. The possibilities that exist between two people, or among a group of people, are a kind of alchemy. They are the most interesting thing in life. The liar is someone who keeps losing sight of these possibilities
Adrienne Rich
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