“Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.”
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), The Poet
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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.”
The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006

“It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.”
On the influence of Jack Kerouac, as quoted in Jack Kerouac (2007) by Alison Behnke, p. 100
Context: Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

[Histoire de France, Michelet, Jules, Chamerot, 1861, 1, book 3]
History of France, 1833-1867

“Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.”
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 138

On if the poet has a responsibility in “‘The language is constructing our ideas more than we are deploying the language’: An interview with Gregory Pardlo” http://gulfcoastmag.org/reviews-and-interviews/art-and-reviews/an-interview-with-gregory-pardlo/ in Gulf Coast Magazine (2019 Jul 17)
“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”
Source: Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue