Analysis Quote by Yuri Lotman

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of…

— Campbell McGrath

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

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

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

— Robert Morgan

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

— Dan Sperber

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

— Diane Wakoski

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics…

— Martha Ronk

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect…

— William Carlos Williams