Language Quote by T. S. Eliot

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

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

— Michael Helm

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

— John Denham

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our…

— Edward Hirsch

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new…

— Dana Scott

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.

— James Tate