To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the... - Adrienne Rich

"There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors."

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

"and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim uswhich will we claimhow will we go on livinghow will we touch, what will we knowwhat will we say to each other."