Concentration Quote by Adrienne Rich

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

— Rita Dove

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

— Paul Engle

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

— Voltaire

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman