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все молятся, чтобы Бог дал победы над японцами. А ведь это разве хорошее дело? И молиться об этом не годится, да и угодить-то ему никому нельзя. Японцы тоже молятся, чтобы им победить. А ведь он один у нас батюшка. Как же Ему быть?»
“At the start of Creation
There was a dark without origin,
At the breaking of Creation
There is fire without end...”
― Selected Poems
There was a dark without origin,
At the breaking of Creation
There is fire without end...”
― Selected Poems
“There is nothing North Americans seem to fear so much as manipulation, probably because at some level we know that we belong to a deeply manipulative system.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
“When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
“Perhaps many white North Americans fear an overtly political art because it might persuade us emotionally of what we think we are “rationally” against; it might get us on a level we have lost touch with; undermine the safety we have built for oneselves, remind us of what is better left forgotten.”
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
― Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
“Дети выучиваются языку взрослых только потому, что при других обстоятельствах могли бы создать свой.”
― Мысль и языкъ
― Мысль и языкъ
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The Brontë Family
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— last activity Jul 21, 2016 12:05PM
Exploring the works, lives, and impact of the Brontë family -- especially that of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne, and Patrick.
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"...how much nearer can we come to understanding any one of the myriad dead who have gone to their graves, carrying their real secrets, of motive and ...more
Oscar Wilde Fan Group
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— last activity Apr 12, 2014 04:00AM
This group will welcome alls fans of Oscar Wilde's writing. If you truly enjoyed some (or all) of his plays, short-stories, poems, essays or his novel ...more
The Green Carnation
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— last activity Mar 23, 2013 11:02AM
LGBT Victorians! Pretty boys, witty boys, You may sneer At our disintegration. Haughty boys, naughty boys, Dear, dear, dear! Swooning with affe ...more
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