Feminine Quote by Kim Hyesoon

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

— Lucille Clifton

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

— Leslie Feinberg

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind…

— Robert Morgan

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

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

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

— Anais Nin

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry…

— Rajneesh

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

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn…

— Samuel Johnson