Language Quote by Ava Dellaira

“Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.”

— Mohit.K.Misra

“Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.”

— Jay Parini

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

— Ilyas Kassam

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira

“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery…

— Ron Starbuck

“When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.”

— James Tate

“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me, and I wonder why I ever thought to…

— Jalaluddin Rumi

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and…

— Justin Adams

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

— Lucille Clifton

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