Quotes About Language

Racism is old, but Peele found a poetic new way of talking about it. He gave us language we didn't know we lacked.

I saw an e-mail from one guy who's about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.' Now that's really poetic.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.

I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

I believe that poetry should communicate.

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.