Able Quote by Terence McKenna

“The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it. Language makes so many…

— Peter Elbow

“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

— Franz Wright

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

— John Denham

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

— Anonymous

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

— Robert Bridges

Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are…

— John Banville

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

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

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

— Seamus Heaney

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence,…

— Elia Suleiman

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down…

— Patrick Rothfuss