Adrienne Rich Quotes

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I remember how to be a person by being around them.

We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.

Knowing who we are helps us plan for who we want to be and where we want to go.

My agenda... is to learn about people.

To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I'm interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.