Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)
Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
“Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.”
The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
" A Defense of Slang http://books.google.com/books?id=8WpaAAAAMAAJ&q="all+slang+is+metaphor+and+all+metaphor+is+poetry"&pg=PA110#v=onepage"
The Defendant (1901)
“The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.”
"A Defence of Slang"
The Defendant (1901)
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 103
“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”
Source: Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.”
In his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg in early summer 1920, in response to questions on the nature of language, as reported in Discussions about Language (1933); quoted in Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy (1972) by Robert J. Pranger, p. 11, and Theorizing Modernism : Essays in Critical Theory (1993) by Steve Giles, p. 28
Context: We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
Source: 1930s-1951, The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 25
