• "Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools." - John Barton Tweet
• "Why should poetry have to make sense?" - Charlie Chaplin Tweet
• "I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country." - Will Cuppy Tweet
• "I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do." - David Antin Tweet
• "It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry." - Samantha Morton Tweet
• "If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield." - Simon Armitage Tweet
• "It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose." - Peter Davison Tweet
• "Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition." - Eli Khamarov Tweet
• "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." - Emily Dickinson Tweet
• "If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable." - Robert Morgan Tweet