Adrienne Rich Quotes about Sleep

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

Adrienne Rich

Sleep, Thinking, Monsters

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" l. 26 (1963)

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

Adrienne Rich

Dream, Sleep, Rooms

Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.

Adrienne Rich

Sleep, Midnight, Enough

Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

Adrienne Rich

Sleep, Dark, Thinking

Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company