Communication Quote by Sheila Hancock

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

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

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables…

— Donald Hall

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

— J. Patrick Lewis

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do, as having…

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

“It takes more energy to find the words to describe poems than almost anything I can think of, except of course for trying to…

— Robert Newman

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

— Arthur Quinn

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch