When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is…

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

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

— Samuel Ervin Beam

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

— Isabel Allende

“First was the abandonment of our native language and our unquestioned embrace of English, even though for my parents that abandonment meant cutting themselves…

— Alex Tizon

“No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“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

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

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

'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine,…

— Erik Pevernagie

“There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.”

— Bryant McGill