Art Quote by Adrienne Rich

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes…

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard

That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

— John Denham

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once…

— Anonymous

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

— Adrienne Rich

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the…

— Linda Hogan

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence,…

— Elia Suleiman