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Danh ngôn của Adrienne Rich (Sứ mệnh: 9)

'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can be measured and even predicted, it is beyond human control. All 'we' can do is create an interior space against the storm, an enclave of self-protection, though the winds of change till penetrate keyholes and 'unsealed apertures.'
At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
The moment of change is the only poem.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.