About Quote by Kevin Young

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

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

— Jim Harrison

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

— Pattiann Rogers

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

— Edward Hirsch

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language…

— Rita Dove

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching…

— Story Musgrave

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound