• "I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it." - Callan McAuliffe Tweet
• "Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest." - Harry Mathews Tweet
• "You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work." - Phyllis Gotlieb Tweet
• "Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few." - John Masefield Tweet
• "I've written some poetry I don't understand myself." - Carl Sandburg Tweet
• "Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course." - John Drinkwater Tweet
• "I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat." - Alfred Edward Housman Tweet
• "But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose." - Lafcadio Hearn Tweet
• "Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it." - Seamus Heaney Tweet
• "I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me." - George Murray Tweet