Behind Quote by John McWhorter

Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language into people's…

— Teju Cole

Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things…

— Andrew Hoberek

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry…

— Jim Jarmusch

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan.…

— Eliza Griswold

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as…

— M. Jayachandran

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not…

— Mark Strand

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

— Adrienne Rich

Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.

— Michelle Dean

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

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we…

— Tracy K. Smith