"Was it worth while to lay— with infinite exertion— a roof I can't live under? — All those blueprints, closings of gaps,measurings, calculations? A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do. I'm naked, ignorant, a naked man fleeing across the roofs who could with a shade of difference be sitting in the lamplight against the cream wallpaper reading— not with indifference— about a naked man fleeing across the roofs."

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About Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich was an American poet, essayist, and feminist thinker. Her work explored identity, politics, and social justice across several decades of modern American literature. She received major literary honors including the National Book Award.

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