Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of … - Adrienne Rich

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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

Adrienne Rich

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

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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
is political. This touch is political

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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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