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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy
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I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that don't matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency.
Penelope Tree
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The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.


Rita Dove
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
John Drinkwater
The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.


Orson F. Whitney
I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.
Claudia Rankine
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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.


Thom Gunn
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Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.


Jim Harrison
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
Patricia Riggen
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If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Matthew Modine
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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
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.
Graham Joyce
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
Rita Dove
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
Thomas Lynch
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The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me.


Genevieve Valentine
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Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
Ernest Istook
Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.
Henry Flynt
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