"Experience is always larger than language." — Adrienne Rich
"Experience is always larger than language."
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- Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything. — Gerald Weinberg
- Experience is a truer guide than the words of others. — Leonardo da Vinci
- It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. — Willie Morris
- The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it. — Stanley Kubrick
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- You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience. — Alan Cumming
142 Quotes by Adrienne Rich
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- I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the…
- Life on the planet is born of woman.
- Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose…
- We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
- The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
- A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not…
- It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
- We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
- If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
- Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
- I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal…
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