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title: "6 Poems Language Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monica-youn/i-tell-my-students-to-think-of-poems-as-language-plus-language-with/)

[Monica Youn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/monica-youn/)

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> [“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/some-poems-survive-it-to-become-poems-in-another-language-he-argued/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

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> [Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/campbell-mcgrath/poems-are-language-turned-into-art-sound-and-sense-matter-they-can-be/)

[Campbell McGrath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/campbell-mcgrath/)

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> [Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-fitzgerald/of-course-the-other-and-more-serious-way-in-which-it-all-happens-is/)

[Robert Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-fitzgerald/)

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> [“I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak But I know now it doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-gibson/i-wrote-too-many-poems-in-a-language-i-did-not-yet-know-how-to-speak/)

[Andrea Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-gibson/)

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> [The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bly/the-language-you-use-for-your-poems-should-be-the-language-you-use/)

[Robert Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bly/)

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