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The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Book by Adrienne Rich · 14 quotes · Enough, Stills, Ends

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“... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?”