Quotes About Communication

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Has it ever occurred to you, ' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

Language is fossil poetry

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences.

Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.

Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.

The ink of a pen is simply the blood of a heart

I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too

All that is not prose passes for poetry.

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.