Courses Quote by Michael Helm

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something…

— W. S. Merwin

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

— Jim Jarmusch

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard

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

— Stanley Kunitz

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

— T. S. Eliot

Language is fossil Poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and…

— May Sarton

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

— Anonymous

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the…

— Linda Hogan