Adrienne Rich Language Quotations

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

Experience is always larger than language.

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

Only where there is language is there world.

A language is a map of our failures

We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ''revolutionary'' but not transformative.

We might possess every technological resource . . . but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.