Artificial Quote by Paul Muldoon

One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or…

— Ezra Pound

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

— Van Morrison

“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- because of…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of…

— Jose Saramago

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

— Seamus Heaney

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

— Jasper Fforde

I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can…

— Paul Simon

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be…

— Don DeLillo

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

— Alan Rickman