Break Quote by Giannina Braschi

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the…

— Linda Hogan

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

— Diane Wakoski

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

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

— Helen Vendler

“There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation and of self-discovery. Tonally…

— Derek Walcott

“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.”

— Paul Valéry

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

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