• "A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances." - Douglas Dunn Tweet
• "To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry." - John Andrew Holmes Tweet
• "Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails." - F. L. Lucas Tweet
• "I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll." - Adrian Mitchell Tweet
• "Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen." - Gertrude Stein Tweet
• "Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it." - Russell Baker Tweet
• "Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level." - Rick Fox Tweet
• "In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry." - Norman MacCaig Tweet
• "Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things." - Matthew Arnold Tweet
• "The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories." - Margaret Walker Tweet