A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far Quotes

“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, / look back on us in mercy where we failed ourselves, / see us not one-dimensional but with / the past as your steadying and corrective lens.”
― Adrienne Rich, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far

“Freedom. It isn’t once, to walk out
under the Milky Way, feeling the rivers
of light, the fields of dark—
freedom is daily, prose-bound, routine
remembering. Putting together, inch by inch
the starry worlds. From all the lost collections.”
― Adrienne Rich, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far