Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law Quotes

“Only to have a grief
equal to all these tears!

There's not a sob in my chest.
Dry hearted Peer Gynt
I pare away, no hero,
merely a cook.”
― Adrienne Rich, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

“Well,
she's long about her coming, who must be
more merciless to herself than history.
Her mind full to the wind, I see her plunge
breasted and glancing through the currents,
taking the light upon her
at least as beautiful as any boy
or helicopter,
poised, still coming,
her fine blades making the air wince

but her cargo
no promise then:
delivered
palpable
ours.”
― Adrienne Rich, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law