Quotes About Communication

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.