Age Quote by Louise Bogan

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are…

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . .…

— Christopher Fry

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

“Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.”

— Mohit.K.Misra

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

— Eavan Boland

Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At…

— Czeslaw Milosz

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for…

— Adrienne Rich

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in…

— Pablo Neruda

“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done…

— James Baldwin

“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”

— Sara Baume

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that we have…

— Ava Dellaira