A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as…

— W. H. Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of…

— Khalil

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods,…

— William Blake

'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the…

— Paul Feig

I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than…

— Tom Stoppard

I love being verbal in films.

— Sylvester Stallone

When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes…

— Mike Vogel

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is…

— Robert Wilson

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of…

— Liane Moriarty

You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it…

— Brett Weston

Education is education, be it verbal or written.

— Aamir Khan

“If we only depend on what people say verbally, we're not even close to understand half of what is really going on. Go deeper!”

— Assegid Habtewold

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's…

— Adolph Gottlieb

“When you speak and affirm, you are creating a verbal contract with yourself.”

— Bryant McGill