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A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)

Either you will

go through this door

or you will not go through.

If you go through

there is always the risk

of remembering your name.

Things look at you doubly

and you must look back

and let them happen.

If you do not go through

it is possible

to live worthily

to maintain your attitudes

to hold your position

to die bravely

but much will blind you,

much will evade you,

at what cost who knows?

The door itself

makes no promises.

It is only a door.

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• The Princess And The Goblins by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Other by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Other Two by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Night Dances by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Net-Menders by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Munich Mannequins by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Moon And The Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Manor Garden by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Lady And The Earthenware Head by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Jailer by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Hermit At Outermost House by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Hanging Man by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Great Carbuncle by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Goring by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Glutton by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Ghost’s Leavetaking by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Fearful by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Eye-Mote by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Everlasting Monday by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Dream by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

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