Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is…

Adrienne Rich
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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 (1995). On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company
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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 (1995). On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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