Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. - Adrienne Rich - Quotesmemo.com

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Adrienne Rich

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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The moment when a feeling enters the body
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A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

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Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

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