Buzz·Posted on Mar 28, 201216 Readers Remember Poet Adrienne Rich In Her Own WordsPoet, essayist, feminist, and National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich died today at the age of 82. On Twitter, her fans memorialized her with lines from her work.by Anna NorthBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @jaycarmona "Tonight I think/no poetry/will serve" --Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012.— Jay Carmona (@jaycarmona) March 28, 2012 2. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @Wamathai False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. - Adrienne Rich #fb— Wamathai(@Wamathai) March 28, 2012 3. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @tulasana "The world's / not wanton / only wild and wavering // I wanted to choose words that even you /would have to be changed by" - Adrienne Rich— tulasana (@tulasana) March 28, 2012 4. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @pghintl back to this scenecarrying a knife, a cameraa book of mythsin whichour names do not appear.Adrienne Rich 1929-2012— pghintl (@pghintl) March 28, 2012 5. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @RachaelLaWriter RIP Adrienne Rich. "The moment of change is the only poem." @scrippscollege #ClassOf2008— Rachael Warecki (@RachaelLaWriter) March 28, 2012 6. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @PoetryFound "If this were a map / it would be the map of the last age of her life" —Adrienne Rich. POETRY, October 1987:... fb.me/1hcA1TzEH— Poetry Foundation (@PoetryFound) March 28, 2012 7. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @nprbooks “When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.†RIP Adrienne Rich— NPR Books (@nprbooks) March 28, 2012 8. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @MarkHarrisNYC Art "means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage."--Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) March 28, 2012 9. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @CBGProductions The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. - Adrienne Rich RIP— Change Before Going (@CBGProductions) March 28, 2012 10. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @lindsey_dear Very sad to read of the death of Adrienne Rich, whose work I love: "And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair / streams black"— Lindsey Dear (@lindsey_dear) March 28, 2012 11. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @UpThePitt "... [A]ll we can confess of what we are / Has in it the defeat of isolation / If not our own, then someone's, anyway." RIP Adrienne Rich— Deborah McIntosh (@UpThePitt) March 28, 2012 12. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @NYUpress “every impulse of light exploding, from the core, as life flies out of us†Adrienne Rich, RIP. lat.ms/H1LX4s— NYU Press (@NYUpress) March 28, 2012 13. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @AdrianaPizarnik "The waste of my love goes on this waytrying to save you from yourself", descansa en paz Adrienne Rich. Siempre fui más de poetisas.— Adriana Pizarnik (@AdrianaPizarnik) March 28, 2012 14. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @bglovejoy RIP Adrienne Rich, first poet I fell in love with. "Perfectly still/in a 19th century sleep!/it seems so natural to die."— Bess Lovejoy (@bglovejoy) March 28, 2012 15. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @UChicagoPress "A woman in the shape of a monster/a monster in the shape of a woman/the skies are full of them." RIP Adrienne Rich: lat.ms/Ho3Oir— UChicagoPress (@UChicagoPress) March 28, 2012 16. @ Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @Rose_Madd3r "A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together" -- Adrienne Rich— Anonymous Rose (@Rose_Madd3r) March 28, 2012