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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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Two women, eye to eye
measuring each other's spirit, each other's
limitless desire,
a whole new poetry beginning here.
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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 isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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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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Now, again, poetry
violent, arcane, common,
hewn of the commonest living substance
into archway, portal, frame
I grasp for you, your bloodstained splinters, your
ancient and stubborn poise
– as the earth trembles –
burning out from the grain
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast any time'. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright
Adrienne Rich
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Born:
May 16, 1929
Died:
March 27, 2012
(aged 82)
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