You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form…

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the…

— Marilyn Hacker

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

— Voltaire

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— Voltaire

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new…

— Dana Scott

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

— Anonymous

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

— Nikki Giovanni

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

— Fady Joudah

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor…

— Edward Hirsch

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

— Ambrose Bierce

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Israel has an absolute right to exist - not only to exist - but to exist in a way that they're not under threat…

— Bernie Sanders

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and…

— Lucy Stone