Poetry Quote by Bruce Chatwin

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Jay Parini

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

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

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

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle

“Poetry is language playing with itself.”

— Harryette Mullen

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

“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

“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 not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

— Joseph Brodsky