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
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language power
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Adrienne Rich,
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Judy Grahn,
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The next thing to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, Bk. II, Chap. 3
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, Bk. II, Chap. 3
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criticism,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
power,
understanding
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