• "Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it." - Roger McGough Tweet
• "Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet." - Huston Smith Tweet
• "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea." - John Updike Tweet
• "Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry." - Thurston Moore Tweet
• "I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way." - Kenny Loggins Tweet
• "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." - T. S. Eliot Tweet
• "Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form." - Robert Morgan Tweet
• "If you cannot be a poet, be the poem." - David Carradine Tweet
• "A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk." - Lisa Bonet Tweet
• "We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible." - John Drinkwater Tweet