French language Quote by Victor Hugo

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

— Robert Morgan

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

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 language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not…

— Thomas Gray

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

— Pattiann Rogers

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and…

— Yael Naim

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

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

— Thomas Mars

It's liberating to perform in another language. There are some subjects I would never talk about in French, where they see me as a…

— Gad Elmaleh

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

— Pat Mora

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun