Adrienne Rich: Citations en anglais
“Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”
Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
“In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), no. 3
Variante: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.
“What kind of beast would turn its life into words?”
Source: Twenty One Love Poems
Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Adrienne Rich livre The Dream of a Common Language
Source: The Dream of a Common Language
“The password is a flicker of an eyelash.”
Source: Selected Poems
As quoted in Ms. magazine (September 1979), p. 44
Turning the Wheel (1981), section 2
What Is Found There (1993), ch. 11
Blood, Bread and Poetry (1986), ch. 1
“No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.”
Blood, Bread and Poetry (1986), ch. 1
