Composing Quote by Jean Cocteau

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

“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

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our…

— Jane Hirshfield

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

— Rufus Wilmot Griswold

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is the lighthouse of life Guiding the lost from a stormy sea. Without it's presence darkness prevails Keeping us from all we can…

— Tom Zart

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Lucille Clifton

Language is the machine of the poet.

— Thomas B. Macaulay