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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Adrienne Rich

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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
Feminist
Peace Activist
Poet
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Baltimore
Maryland
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Only where there is language is there world.
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The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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