Feels Quote by Masiela Lusha

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

— Michael Donaghy

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from…

— Edward Hirsch

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

— Jack Prelutsky

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

— Samuel R. Delany

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

— Pat Mora

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

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and…

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.”

— Jay Parini

I never had much education in English poetry as such,

— Anne Carson

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new…

— Dana Scott

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

— Anonymous