Famous Quotes | all that we might have...

all that we might have been,
all that we were—fire, tears,
wit, taste, martyred ambition—
stirs like the memory of refused adultery
the drained and flagging bosom of our middle years. - Adrienne Rich
Attribution: Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (l. 80–84). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.

Categories: Age And Aging, Ambition, Time

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