Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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.
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.