“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."”
Littérature (1930)
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Sir Monier Monier-Williams in: Sanskrit-English dictionary https://books.google.co.in/books?id=j2j7AgAAQBAJ&pg=PR20, Рипол Рипол Классик, p. 20.

As quoted in World Authors 1950–1970 (1975) by J. Wakeman, pp. 221–223

Source: Introduction to semantics, 1962, p. 316

“Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.”
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), The Poet

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)

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)