• "There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army." - John Ashbery Tweet
• "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people." - Adrian Mitchell Tweet
• "Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance." - Robert Frost Tweet
• "As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing." - T. S. Eliot Tweet
• "Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously." - Asghar Farhadi Tweet
• "Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos." - Andrew Motion Tweet
• "If you cannot be a poet, be the poem." - David Carradine Tweet
• "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." - John F. Kennedy Tweet
• "My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding." - Harry Mathews Tweet
• "What is poetry which does not save nations or people?" - Czeslaw Milosz Tweet