Creative Language Quotes

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is basically illogical. Prose has to be clear-cut; poetry has to be vague - that's its beauty, its quality. Prose simply says what it says; poetry says many things. Prose is needed in the day-to-day world, in the marketplace. But whenever something of the heart has to be said, prose is always found inadequate - one has to fall back to poetry.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation."

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

As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

I make up many words but we can go on for forever about slang words that E-40 created. That has always been one of my things since was youngster. I have always being creative with my words.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.