Jobs Quote by William Carlos Williams

“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in…

— Pablo Neruda

Language is the machine of the poet.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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

— Mohit.K.Misra

“Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.”

— Jay Parini

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

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

— Mary Oliver

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our…

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Erica Jong

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams