"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind." - Don MarquisTweet
"The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot." - Graham JoyceTweet
"I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it." - Callan McAuliffeTweet
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens." - Jean CocteauTweet
"Poetry lies its way to the truth." - John CiardiTweet
"Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early." - Rita DoveTweet
"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me." - Peter DavisonTweet
"The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture." - Richard DawkinsTweet
"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be." - Mark StrandTweet
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep." - Salman RushdieTweet