“To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you'll realize that "yes, it reaches out. It meant that, too." Then all of a sudden you'll get a rhyme and the rhyme will throw up a whole new way of looking at things. It's this relationship that you never dreamed of.” WayWritingMeanWholeFactsLanguageRealizingPoetry IsReach OutNew WaysRhymeRenewalRecreationSubtlety Author:Mary Ann Hoberman
“A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."” ThinkingWayGivingDoeSaidLanguageShiver Author:Mary Ann Hoberman
