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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.


Paul Engle

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AVIJEET DAS In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate rel...
ADRIENNE RICH One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of wor...
EDWARD HIRSCH A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a...
JEANETTE WINTERSON One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in t...
T.S. ELIOT Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
SIMONIDES Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech
SIMONIDES Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Language is fossil poetry.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Language is fossil poetry
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of per...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't...
JAMES FENTON Poetry is the language of a state of crisis
STEPHAN MALLARME that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
MARK STRAND Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin...
SALIL JHA If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I...
EMILY DICKINSON Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating commo...
NORMAN O. BROWN ...the trouble with poetry is
that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

BILLY COLLINS Poetry is the arch of expression under which the heart's language is created.
SARA STRAIN Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Poetry is the rhythmic creation of beauty in words.
LEAH SLONE I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communicatio...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things toge...
HéLèNE CIXOUS All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears
ALFRED DOUGLAS Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
MAX WILHELM DEHN Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers,...
ROLAND BARTHES By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face...
DAVID WHYTE When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
ANATOLE BROYARD The night will be filled with human poetry of language and common threads of universal experience in...
JEFF METCALF Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
RITA DOVE When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows th...
JOHN F. KENNEDY When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W.H. AUDEN Words

Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
ANNE SEXTON I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
JACK GILBERT If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to wel...
PAUL NOUGé I don't write poetry with the intention of making someone sad but rather to illustrate my own feelin...
JAMES DYE When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
ORSON F. WHITNEY So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or tha...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there&...
KATE GRENVILLE Poetry is the language of the soul;
Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.
Each line must...
LORI R. LOPEZ If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, &#...
A. R. AMMONS If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar di...
GEORGES BATAILLE Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feeling...
UMBERTO ECO Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
LUCILLE CLIFTON When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of h...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
THOMAS GRAY Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, w...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It's a language that is adaptive to emotions, ideas and feelings.
KATHERINE WEST The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do ...
GRAHAM SWIFT Music is poetry with personality
ROSS LYNCH The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete lan...
ANTONIN ARTAUD I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde...
ANNA AKHMATOVA When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so conc...
NIELS BOHR Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language ...
MARILYN HACKER A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, ...
PEGGY NOONAN I think people feel that when they look at the print. The closest thing I can think of is poetry, wh...
HOLLY DOWNING In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, usi...
KIM EDWARDS Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
MARIANNE MOORE Poetry is breathing words that gives a reader pause.
ANKITA SINGHAL In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. –...
PHILIP ZALESKI Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
DENNIS GABOR Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journ...
ALAN BREWER Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
CHARLES SIMIC We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technologic...
ADRIENNE RICH Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot ...
P.K. PAGE Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for...
C.S. LEWIS If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
THOM GUNN Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression ...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
ROBERT FROST If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
ROMEO MILLER Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
KHALIL GIBRAN Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the ve...
ERICA JONG Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poe...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetr...
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RAND PAUL The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
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