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The Dream of a Common Language

Adrienne Rich

The Dream of a Common Language is a work of poetry written by award-winning author and activist Adrienne Rich.

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“No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,
our animal passion rooted in the city.”

Adrienne Rich book The Dream of a Common Language

Source: The Dream of a Common Language

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“The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.

-from "Transcendental Etude”

Adrienne Rich book The Dream of a Common Language

Source: The Dream of a Common Language

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“I choose to love this time for once
with all my intelligence

-from "Splittings”

Adrienne Rich book The Dream of a Common Language

Source: The Dream of a Common Language

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