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Adrienne Rich Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1929 - March 27, 2012

Topics

Relationship Power Poetry Language

My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.

Style Jim Crow Inspired Era Crow

I wasn't always confident; it took me awhile to kind of assume my role in fashion and feel attractive and be able to walk into a room.

Walk Me Fashion Confident Feel Kind

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Men Dream Why Never Ask See

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Michael Ignatieff

King Bible Language Better Years He

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.

Sexy You Choose Play Say Mini

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Dance Me Thought Why Way Opera

We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.

Determination Complacent Destroy Our

It's so weird to have someone tell you you're sick when you feel really healthy and good.

Good Sick Weird Feel Someone You

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Marriage Art Unconscious Conscious

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Work Relationship History Prayer

I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs.

Love Art Proud Inspire Create How

I can't work with my brother without laughing.

Work Brother Without Laughing

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