Quote by Adrienne Rich
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, whic

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. – Adrienne Rich

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…? – Adrienne Rich

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Death
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The mothers battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. – Adrienne Rich

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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. – J. G. Stedman

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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie

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Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant,—the most frivolous of all things, or the most important. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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