• "Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job." - Toi Derricotte Tweet
• "A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense." - Thomas Harrison Tweet
• "I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there." - David Knopfler Tweet
• "And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will." - Ezra Pound Tweet
• "Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie." - Jean Cocteau Tweet
• "The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry." - David Hare Tweet
• "To have great poets, there must be great audiences." - Walt Whitman Tweet
• "The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?" - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Tweet
• "Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement." - Samuel Prout Tweet
• "Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." - Thomas Gray Tweet