• "If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money." - Robert Graves Tweet
• "I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about." - Marcus Mumford Tweet
• "So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us." - Tracy K. Smith Tweet
• "I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not." - Kenneth Koch Tweet
• "A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense." - Thomas Harrison Tweet
• "Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose." - Walter Savage Landor Tweet
• "One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose." - Voltaire Tweet
• "Poetry must be made by all and not by one." - Comte de Lautreamont Tweet
• "If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem." - M. H. Abrams Tweet
• "When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence." - Marilyn Hacker Tweet