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Only where there is language is there world.

Only where there is language is there world.

Adrienne Rich
World, Language
1969 Leaflets,'The Demon Lover'.

Experience is always larger than language.

Adrienne Rich
Experience, Language
1991 Interview in theAmerican Poetry Review, Jan-Feb.

A language is a map of our failures

Adrienne Rich
Maps, Language
Adrienne Rich (2002). “Poemas, 1963-2000”, p.70, Editorial Renacimiento

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

Adrienne Rich
Language, Enough
Adrienne Rich (2012). “Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012: 1971–2012”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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