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Adrienne Rich
“Origins and History of Consciousness

III.

It’s simple to wake from sleep with a stranger,
dress, go out, drink coffee,
enter a life again. It isn’t simple
to wake from sleep into the neighborhood
of one neither strange nor familiar
whom we have chosen to trust. Trusting, untrusting,
we lowered ourselves into this, let ourselves
downward hand over hand as on a rope that quivered
over the unsearched…. We did this. Conceived
of each other, conceived each other in a darkness
which I remember as drenched in light.
I want to call this, life.

But I can’t call it life until we start to move
beyond this secret circle of fire
where our bodies are giant shadows flung on a wall
where the night becomes our inner darkness, and sleeps
like a dumb beast, head on her paws, in the corner.”
Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

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

-from "Splittings”
Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

Adrienne Rich
“Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”
Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Chester Nimitz
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.”
Chester Nimitz

Alexandra Monir
“There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.”
Alexandra Monir, Timeless

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