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, introduction to The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977
no edges
Poets have always known that one's education has no edges, has no end, is not separated out and cannot be separated out in any way, and is full of strength because one refuses to have it separated out.
—Muriel Rukeyser, "The Education of the Poet," The Writer and Her Work (W.W. Norton, 1980), edited by Janet Sternburg
—Muriel Rukeyser, "The Education of the Poet," The Writer and Her Work (W.W. Norton, 1980), edited by Janet Sternburg
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