Certain Quote by John Drinkwater

“Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”

— Iain McGilchrist

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

— Anonymous

Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the vocabulary you…

— Grant Imahara

When it comes to personal communication, words are all we've got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human beings.

— Gyles Brandreth

“We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is communication. Sleep…

— Christopher Page

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

— Leonard Bernstein

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining,…

— John Drinkwater

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed…

— John Drinkwater

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the…

— John Drinkwater

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed…

— David Frum