Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)
“…slang…the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted upon, the used, the used up. It is demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight.”
Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
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Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
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.”
Michael Schmidt (poet) (1947) American poet
The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant
" A Defense of Slang http://books.google.com/books?id=8WpaAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;all+slang+is+metaphor+and+all+metaphor+is+poetry&quot;&pg=PA110#v=onepage" <br class="br">The Defendant (1901)
“The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant
"A Defence of Slang"
The Defendant (1901)
“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”
Leslie Feinberg (1949–2014) activist and author known for authoring Stone Butch Blues
Source: Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
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.”
Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: 1930s-1951, The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 25