Adrienne Rich · 358 pages
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“Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.”
― Adrienne Rich, quote from The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
“I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.”
― Adrienne Rich, quote from The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
“A language is a map of our failures”
― Adrienne Rich, quote from The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
“We lie under the sheet
after making love, speaking
of loneliness
relieved in a book
relived in a book
so on that page
the clot and fissure
of it appears
words of a man
in pain
a naked word
entering the clot
a hand grasping
through bars:
deliverance
What happens between us
has happened for centuries
we know it from literature
still it happens
sexual jealousy
outflung hand
beating bed
dryness of mouth
after panting
there are books that describe all this
and they are useless”
― Adrienne Rich, quote from The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
“A dream of tenderness
wrestles with all I know of history”
― Adrienne Rich, quote from The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
Adrienne Rich
Born place: in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States
Born date May 16, 1929
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“Ядохме кебапчета в деня, в който се запознахме. Купихме си от една лавка и ги изпапахме прави, дърво и камък се пукаше от студ. Жената, дето ги печеше, носеше плетена вълнена жилетка и готварско боне. Придружаваше ни в глада, наблюдавайки всяка наша хапка, щастлива, че оценяваме нейните кебапчета. Те бяха гордост. Гордостта на дребния й живот на крайпътна готвачка. Виждам я, като че ли е пред мен... пролетарско лице, отрудено и все пак безкрайно мило. От онези добронамерени човеци, на които попадаш случайно и ти идва да ги прегърнеш, защото ти се усмихват от дълбините на своя човешки опит и отведнъж те измъкват от другата половина на света, онази унилата, на хората, затънали в своята локва тъмнина. Колко такива щастливци срещах тогава в Сараево! Имаха зачервени от студа бузи, да, но и от свенливост, понеже се осмеляваха да мечтаят.”
― Margaret Mazzantini, quote from Twice Born
“the senses bound our feeling world: there is an abrupt break where their power stops”
― Elizabeth Bowen, quote from The Death of the Heart
“I like it better when my room is pitch black, when the dark is so thick it swallows me up and I feel as if I could drown in it.”
― Louise O'Neill, quote from Asking For It
“After all, Fnick is Superman," said Iggy.
"Shut up, Jeff," I said, but I was smiling. I lifted Iggy's fingers to my face so that he knew.”
― James Patterson, quote from School's Out - Forever
“zweites Leben begann etwa zehn Stunden später, als ich im grellen Licht des Krankenzimmers erwachte – mit einer großen Kopfwunde und einer Vergangenheit, an die ich keinerlei Erinnerung besaß. Dass Freunde und Verwandte mein Bett umringten, hätte es mir eigentlich erleichtern sollen, half aber nichts, weil einer aus dieser”
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