Language Quote by Charles Bernstein

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge…

— Suman Pokhrel

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

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”

— Helen Vendler

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

“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

“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

“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do, as having…

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

— Robert Fitzgerald

“Poetry is language playing with itself.”

— Harryette Mullen