Language Quote by Stanley Kunitz

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,

— Mahmoud Darwish

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

— Wallace Stevens

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“The attitude of resistance is one of weakness inasmuch as it only faces an enemy. It has its back to all that is truly…

— Henry David Thoreau

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance…

— Lawrence Joseph

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has…

— Marilyn Hacker

“I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the…

— bell hooks

“In resistance lies the key to life”

— Elif Shafak

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

— James Joyce

“When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.”

— James Tate

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

— Alain Badiou