Knows Quote by Chath Piersath

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

— Chath Piersath

Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm…

— Chath Piersath

I still miss qualities of Khmer life that are hard to quantify: the slow, sensual pace, the hovering presence of the past, the vast…

— Lawrence Osborne

For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.

— Angelina Jolie

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or…

— Campbell McGrath

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

— Matthea Harvey

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter,…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I have poetry in my soul but it's written in a language very few understand.

— @efiosiugbore

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

— Anonymous

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— James Tate