Books Quote by Juan Ramon Jimenez

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

— Margaret Atwood

“Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.”

— J.A. Burrow

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed…

— Joseph Brodsky

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in…

— Anonymous

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are…

— Denise Duhamel

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

— Edward Hirsch

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

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss…

— Christian Wiman

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably…

— Raquel Cepeda

“Language and literature allows us to define our own truths using our perceptions of culture and society.”

— T. MacLaughlin

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,…

— Ellen Glasgow

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

— Robert Duvall

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk