Quotes About Communication

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

A poet is a painter of the soul.

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.