Delicate Quote by Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

— Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

— Mary Wigman

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

— Robin Williams

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

— Robin Williams

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

— Tom Schulman

“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don't have…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

— T. S. Eliot

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of…

— Edward Hirsch

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

— Cynthia Ozick

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

— Claudius

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

— Winston Churchill