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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

Adrienne Rich

I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
ADRIENNE RICH

Born Each Help Helping Knowing Live Somehow Somewhere Tomorrow
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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Body Complexity Desire Dream Fecundity Struggle Struggling Truth Unconcious
It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Beyond Existence Own Poet Risk Some Survival
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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False Glamour Longer Mistrust Performance Poverty Theatricality Transcendental
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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Book Country End Immediately Poet Remarkable War World Wrote
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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Citizen Class Generation Grief Magnet National Race Relationship Wall War
The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Apparated Asking Crucial Movement Political Voice Women
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Miracle More People Thinking Together Two
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Absolute Country Failure Imagination People Political Scientific War
Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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Children Love Loving Past Purpose Run Running Rush Soul Worth
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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Country Difficulty Further Movement Novelist People Phrases Realize Two Wolf
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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Change Changing Cities Despair Hope Mean
Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Love Subject Trained Wall
I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Began Feel Heard Movement Resonating Voice
When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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Carpet Closely Look Multiple Threads Tiny Underside Unseen Weaver
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Dream Know Like Poem Put

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