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Quote by Adrienne Rich

“Experience is always larger than language.”

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Adrienne Rich was an American poet known for her profound poetry and feminist perspective. Her works explored themes such as gender, politics, and social justice, having a profound impact on contemporary poetry. more

“Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.”

Ifs Ends Helping Shows Together Suffering Order Military Succeed Members Experience Faults Objectives Enterprise Minorities Regions Tidy

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.”

Ifs Experience

Author:Ivan Panin

“From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.”

Past Lessons Experience

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.”

Way Arms Experience Bachelors Niece

Author:William Pett Ridge

“I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.”

Wells Sometimes Heaven Hell Terrible Experience Visionaries

Author:Aldous Huxley

“I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.”

People World Littles Self Facts Government Experience Self-government

Author:Prince Philip

“If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.”

Ifs Want Home Relax

Author:Park Chan-wook

“I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.”

Ifs Thinking Understanding Loss Talking Knowledge Comfortable Losing Experience

Author:Anderson Cooper

“If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.”

Ifs Country Matter Facts Seems Experience Scales Division Distinctive

Author:Denis Donoghue

“It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.”

Way Ideas Gone Experience Innocence Sensible

Author:Andrew Norman Wilson

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