• Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

  Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 1934-1992
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. architecture
2. foundations
3. future
4. change
5. bridge
6. across

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. by : Audre Lorde

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