Free Imperial Cities

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“He writes free verse, I’m told, and he is thought
To be the author of the Seven Freedoms:
Free Will, Trade, Verse, Thought, Love, Speech, Coinage.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)