Actor Quote by Derek Walcott

“Syllables and letters may not be tangible, but they can still destroy your entire life faster than a bullet from a gun. One word.…

— Aly Martinez

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

— Dan Sperber

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

— William Shakespeare

“Line by Line, Word by Word, Syllable by Syllable!”

— Carl McKever

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

— Rita Dove

Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin…

— Eavan Boland

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

— Jane Austen

“my incessantly syllable-excreting mind”

— Günter Grass

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because…

— Herbert Spencer

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost