Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. ✨ Adrienne Ric…

Adrienne Rich
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition), p.104, W. W. Norton & Company
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness ✨ Adrienne Rich (1976). Of woman born motherhoo … ▶
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break … ▶
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 … ▶
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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 … ▶

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition), p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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