I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
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.
I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
Writing is the painting of the voice.
Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop or reason.
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.
Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.
That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.
The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.
I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.
Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
