The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity…

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't…

— Peter Davison

“What do they mean when they say: “I do not like your poems; you have no faith whatever. You seem neither to have suffered…

— William Carlos Williams

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we…

— Mari Evans

“Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the narrative of…

— Jacques Rancière

Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some…

— Robert Pinsky

Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as…

— Yuri Lotman

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

— Eugenio Montale

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a…

— Roman Jakobson

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

— Isabel Allende

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

— Max Barry

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

— Samuel Ervin Beam

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

— John le Carre

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt…

— Gene Wolfe

The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to…

— Martin McGuinness