Acquainted Quote by James Fenton

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

— James Fenton

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give…

— Nick Laird

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching…

— Story Musgrave

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

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

— David Biespiel

Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves.…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia