Language Quote by Jalaluddin Rumi

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

— James Tate

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that we have…

— Ava Dellaira

“Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.”

— Jay Parini

“Poetry is language playing with itself.”

— Harryette Mullen

“Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how rarely do…

— Mark Edmundson

“... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood ...”

— John Geddes

“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery…

— Ron Starbuck

“And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence…

— Daisy Hernandez

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“...there are times when silence is a poem.”

— John Fowles

“Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!”

— Tina Sequeira