Age Quote by Thomas Gray

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something…

— W. S. Merwin

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

— Lucille Clifton

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Michael Helm

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 a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid…

— Victor Hugo

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

— Robert Morgan

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine…

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn…

— Samuel Johnson

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

— Paul Gauguin

Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At…

— Czeslaw Milosz