Author: Adrienne Rich

Cites

• André Breton (1)
  • IN: Diving into the Wreck (1973) Poetry, American
    EPIGRAPH: Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognise, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten
    FROM: Nadja, (1928), Novel, France
• George Eliot (1)
  • IN: Diving into the Wreck (1973) Poetry, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life
    FROM: Felix Holt, the Radical, (1866), Novel, UK
• George Oppen (1)
  • IN: Midnight Salvage (1999) Poetry, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don't know how to measure happiness. The issue is happiness, there is no other issue or no other issue one has a right to think about politically, but I don't know how to measure happiness
    FROM: Letter to June Oppen Degnan, August 5, 1970, (1970), Letter, US

Cited by

• Cheryl Strayed (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: "The words are purposes. The words are maps."
    FROM: "Diving into the Wreck", (1973), Poem, US
• Lydia Kwa (1)
  • IN: This Place Called Absence (2000) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Freedom. It isn’t once, to walk out under the Milky Way, feeling the rivers of light, the fields of dark– freedom is daily, prose-bound, routine remembering. Putting together, inch by inch the starry worlds. From all the lost collections
    FROM: For Memory, (1979), Poem, US
• Kenny Fries (2)
  • IN: Night After Night (1984) Poetry, American
    EPIGRAPH: I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence
    FROM: "Splittings", (1978), Poem, US
  • IN: Desert Walking (2000) Poetry, American
    EPIGRAPH: Out in this desert we are testing bombs, that's why we came here
    FROM: "Trying to talk with a man", (1971), Poem, US
• Wally Lamb (1)
  • IN: We Are Water (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You see a man trying to think. You want to say to everything: Keep off! Give him room! But you only watch, terried the old consolations will get him at last like a fish half-dead from flopping and almost crawling across the shingle, almost breathing the raw, agonizing air till a wave pulls it back blind into the triumphant sea.
    FROM: Ghost of a Chance, (1993), Poem, US
• B. J. Hollars (1)
  • IN: This is Only a Test (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps.
    FROM: "Diving into the Wreck", (1973), Poem, US
• Victoria Redel (1)
  • IN: Before Everything (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.
    FROM: Tattered Kaddish, (1991), Poem, US
• Kate Mosse (1)
  • IN: Citadel (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We are, I am, you are by cowardise or courage the ones who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.
    FROM: Diving into the Wreck, (1973), Poem, US
• Ian McEwan (1)
  • IN: The Comfort of Strangers (1981) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: how we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons
    FROM: Sibling Mysteries, (1977), Poem, US