Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome. ✨ Adrienne Rich (…

Adrienne Rich
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition), p.76, W. W. Norton & Company
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot … ▶
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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
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1993). A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition), p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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