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Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

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

— T. S. Eliot

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in…

— Shane McCrae

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music…

— Caterina Fake

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and…

— Justin Adams

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

— Amanda Gorman

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams