No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing …

Adrienne Rich
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972, p.52, W. W. Norton & Company
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1995). On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Sel … ▶
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.
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs … ▶

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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