Quotes About Communication

If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.

Color speaks all languages.

Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word