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No one lives in this room
without confronting the whiteness of the wall
behind the poems, planks of books,
photographs of dead heroines.
Without contemplating last and late
the true nature of poetry. The drive
to connect. The dream of a common language.
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Where language and naming are power,
silence is oppression, is violence.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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The rules break like a thermometer,
quicksilver spills across the charted systems,
we're out in a country that has no language
no laws, we're chasing the raven and the wren
through gorges unexplored since dawn
whatever we do together is pure invention
the maps they gave us were out of date
by years.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Go back so far there is another language
go back far enough the language
is no longer personal.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Adrienne Rich
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Born:
May 16, 1929
Died:
March 27, 2012
(aged 82)
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