Language Quote by Margaret Atwood

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes…

— Simin Behbahani

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 the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

— Li-Young Lee

we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most…

— Erica Jong

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

— Stanley Kunitz

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They…

— Erica Jong

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place…

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

— Adrienne Rich