...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. (Anthony Burgess)

...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.

Anthony Burgess

Related topics

demotic emerging insight language poetry slang

Related quotes

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War. View quote
Johann Hari
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact ... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard. View quote
William Carlos Williams
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. View quote
Mark Strand