• "I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up." - Keith Haring Tweet
• "For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men." - Giorgos Seferis Tweet
• "The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry." - Robert Morgan Tweet
• "Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory." - George William Curtis Tweet
• "We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." - William Butler Yeats Tweet
• "I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry." - Robert Morgan Tweet
• "Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do." - Diane Wakoski Tweet
• "Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act." - A. E. Housman Tweet
• "Poetry is a mere drug, Sir." - George Farquhar Tweet
• "The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it." - Sylvia Plath Tweet