Quotes From "The Fact Of A Doorframe: Poems Selected And New 19501984" By Adrienne Rich

We lie under the sheetafter making love, speakingof lonelinessrelieved in a bookrelived in a bookso on that pagethe clot and fissureof it appearswords of a manin paina naked wordentering the clota hand graspingthrough bars:deliverance What happens between ushas happened for centurieswe know it from literaturestill it happenssexual jealousyoutflung handbeating beddryness of mouth after pantingthere are books that describe all thisand they are useless . Adrienne Rich

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A language is a map of our failures Adrienne Rich

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