Language Quote by Shane McCrae

In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening…

— Pattiann Rogers

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

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

— Cyndi Lauper

I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical…

— Jack Driscoll

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of…

— Campbell McGrath

I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day after day…

— Nathan Englander

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that…

— E. L. Doctorow

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

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

— Pattiann Rogers

“Music psychology has been busy looking at the ways in which music might be similar to language, but Richman, Tannen, and others might be…

— Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

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

Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward…

— Joan Larkin