Accents Quote by Eugene Ionesco

Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At…

— Czeslaw Milosz

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word,…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

— Michael Helm

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

— William Carlos Williams

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

— Brian Harris

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

“In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed on and…

— Rohinton Mistry

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

— Jim Jarmusch