Poetry is made within and with language. For poets; words, phrases, sentences are like notes to musician or color and paint brush to painter. In this talk, Mohammadreza Amini, elaborates on the relationship between language and literature. He recites a poem by a prominent Iranian poet, Saadi Shirazi, and with analyzing that piece he tries to explain what literate is. Mohammadreza Amini, born in 1960, first began studying sociology at Shiraz University, but changed majors to Persian literature during the Cultural Revolution. His scientific curiosity led him to study general linguistics during his master's courses. He got a PhD in Persian literature. He is currently an associate professor in this field at Shiraz University. In addition to literary articles, which are mainly in the fields of literary criticism, poetry, stylistics and analysis of the language of poetry, he has translated texts and poems from English and French into Persian. His first translated book is the poetry of the seventeenth-century French poet Nicolas Boalou, some poems by Andre Chagnie and Victor Hugo. He has been teaching Persian language and literature at the University of Strasbourg, France, for four years and is one of the founders of the University Center of Iranian Studies and Research in Alsace. In 2019, he published the book "New Miniatures". This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx