Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by…

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

— Sam Abell

“Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.”

— Mary Lou Retton

“(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.”

— H.G. Wells

People look at me, for example, and think I have this perfect lavish life, that it's lit all the time, when that's not true…

— Selah Louise Marley

Sometimes I try and other times I quit. Often times I contemplate about life when I'm lit. I give it another shot and shit.…

— Raghib Clitso

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

— Amanda Gorman

“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

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 is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe