Language Quote by Kenneth White

“All the stones that are around here, each one has a language of its own. Even the earth has a song.”

— Wallace Black Elk Lakota

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

— Mary Oliver

“A poem is language built to the struc- ture of a flower.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

“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

“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge…

— Suman Pokhrel

“Writing writhed across the surface of the stone, runes that looked a little familiar. Norse, maybe? Some of them looked more like Egyptian. They…

— Jim Butcher

“Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language.…

— Suman Pokhrel

Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

— Anonymous

“Language is the element of definition, the defining and descriptive incantation. It puts the coin between our teeth. It whistles the boat up. It…

— Charles Wright

“Stone: Yes, we are everything, every experience we've ever had, and in some of us, a lot of it translates and makes patterns, poems.…

— Ruth Stone

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam