You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be n…

Adrienne Rich
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2002). Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company
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