Culture Quote by Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

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

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

— Robert Morgan

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

— Mark Doty

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe