History Quote by James Fenton

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

— James Fenton

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

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 originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia

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

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

It’s history. It’s poetry.

— Anonymous

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

— Mary Oliver

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