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Adrienne Rich

Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Love Subject Trained Wall
Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Change Invitation Live Threat
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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Belong Death Famine Pain Persuade Suicide Wose
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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Children Day Inspiring Mother Strike Tied Unionize Worker
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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Burn Desire Kill Living might Poem Remind Revolutionary Theorize Wick
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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Alone Book Both Certainly Conscious Library Mean Page Person Poem Poet Voice Writing
We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Intended Moving Our Privilege Responsible Verbal Words
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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Among Counted Down Must None Perhaps Sit Weep
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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Across Chalkboard Depended Dream Dredged Life Memories Public Sieved Word Writing
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard People Way
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Country Own Patriotism Soul Wrestles
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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Always Asked Children Come Fear Growing Lest Menses Up Waited Waiting War Women
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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Conscious Cutting Interval Light Profane Revelation Self Stopped Time
That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Country Failure Feel Good Helping Measure Represented Themselves War
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Artist Dishonoured Honor Legal People President
What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Another Body Live Ourselves Sense Skin Surpass

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