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 RichPoetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Adrienne RichGrief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
Adrienne Rich