They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in…

Adrienne Rich
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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...? ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1995). On Lies, … ▶
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from Splittings
We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege ✨ Adrienne Rich (1993). Your Native Land, Your Life, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1993). A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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...? ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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