Art Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

— John Drinkwater

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper,…

— Sarah Kay

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

“Poetry’s not made of words”

— Ariana Reines

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the…

— Eugene Ionesco

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

— Stephane Mallarme

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…

— Conrad Aiken

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry…

— Herbert Read

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato