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Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

Adrienne Rich
Wall, Ivy, Subjects
Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.386, W. W. Norton & Company

The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.

Adrienne Rich
Wall, War, Grief
Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

Adrienne Rich
Art, Wall, Years
Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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