Crime Quote by William C. Brown

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the…

— Hakim Bey

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

— Joseph Brodsky

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

— William Carlos Williams

There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no…

— Freda Adler

“Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the narrative of…

— Jacques Rancière

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are…

— Jean Cocteau

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

— Edmund Burke

“Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.”

— Mohit.K.Misra

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

— Arthur Quinn

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

— Erica Jong

“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter a generation's…

— Donovan