Adrienne Rich Dream Quotations

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

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.