Language Quote by Jack Spicer

“The shore whispers to the sea: “Write to me what your waves struggle to say.” The sea writes in foam again and again and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— James Tate

“Language, the homeland and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music, not in…

— Boris Pasternak

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them…

— Tracy K. Smith

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…

— Don Paterson

“The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

“She began to whisper something in my ear. It’s the strangest thing about poetry—you can tell it’s poetry, even if you don’t speak the…

— Neil Gaiman

“There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They’re too weak to make it from shore to shore. I…

— Antonia Michaelis

“Hundreds of hopeless waves rushed constantly shorewards, falling exhausted upon a beach of great loose stones, that seemed to stretch miles and miles in…

— George MacDonald

“I dreamed of setting it up out here in front of where I am sitting now, on the tripod that I would have ordered…

— Colm Toibin

“ Anagram of Seeking by Susan Laughter Meyers Sit, unplanted, with your back to a tree, or sink to your knees . If sorrow…

— Susan Laughter Meyers

“I am the wind and the wind is invisible, all the leaves tremble but I am invisible, blackbird over the dark field but I…

— Richard Siken