Communication Quote by Arthur Quinn

We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in…

— Fady Joudah

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

“I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago-- Aren't they in their…

— B.J. Ward

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

— Erica Jong

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

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to…

— Claudio Magris

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

— Katy Lederer

“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani