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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

Adrienne Rich
Dream, Effort, Vision
Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

Adrienne Rich
Eye, Survival, Vision
Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.

Adrienne Rich
Vision, Goes On, Claims
Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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