You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. ✨ Adrienne R…

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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition), p.35, W. W. Norton & Company
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2002). Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready … ▶
I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch ✨ Adrienne Rich (2002). The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company
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 des … ▶
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life. ✨ 19 … ▶

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition), p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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