• "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
• "Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours." - Lascelles Abercrombie Tweet
• "The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it." - Sylvia Plath Tweet
• "Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go." - Laura Riding Tweet
• "The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry." - Lynda Barry Tweet
• "Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth." - June Jordan Tweet
• "I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem." - Howard Nemerov Tweet
• "Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation." - Wislawa Szymborska Tweet
• "The poetry of the earth is never dead." - John Keats Tweet
• "Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew." - Anthony Hecht Tweet