These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no …

Adrienne Rich
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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
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1971). The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. ✨ 1971 Talk delivered to Forum on'TheWomanWriter in the Twentieth Century'. Co … ▶
Experience is always larger than language. ✨ 1991 Interview in theAmerican Poetry Review, Jan-Feb.
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.63, W. W. N … ▶
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple ✨ Adrienne Cecile Rich (1951). Selected poems, 1950-1995, Salmon Publishing

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

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