Quotes About Words

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

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

Language is fossil poetry

Even the simplest poemMay destroy your immunity to human emotions.All poems must carry a Government warning. WordsCan seriously affect your heart.

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

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.

To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.