“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”
More from Adrienne Rich
“The woman I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.”
“Poetry has the capacity, in its own ways and by its own means, to remind us of something…”
“Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of…”
“My head is full of whispers, which tomorrow will be silent.”