It was so important to him, and he made it important to…

What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is…

— June Jordan

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Obviously, my wife is very important, very important because in all this time she never watched me with that look that means 'I am…

— Alex Zanardi

Its nice to be important, but its important to be nice

— Anonymous

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the…

— Damon Galgut

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

— Stanley Kunitz

“Does poetry - or language or philosophy or music or architecture, even that of our temples - really need to dance to the same…

— Maria Rosa Menocal

“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is…

— Ivan Turgenev

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

“Poetry is the language of the soul; Poetic Prose, the language of my heart. Each line must flow as in a song, and strike…

— Lori R. Lopez

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They…

— Erica Jong

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

— Amanda Gorman