To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboar…

Adrienne Rich
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition), p.35, W. W. Norton & Company
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