It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be s…

Adrienne Rich
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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
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...? ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dre … ▶
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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

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