Language Quote by John Drinkwater

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice…

— Vanna Bonta

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…

— Conrad Aiken

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in…

— Gerald Brenan

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

— Mary Ruefle

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the…

— Thomas Carlyle

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver