Quotes About Communication

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

Every word was once a poem.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.