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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Book by Adrienne Rich · 4 quotes · Language, Humans, Males

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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 Quotes

“The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.”