• "I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now." - Norman MacCaig Tweet
• "For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry." - Paul Muldoon Tweet
• "Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me." - Ryan Adams Tweet
• "I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality." - Azar Nafisi Tweet
• "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one." - John Ruskin Tweet
• "Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way." - John Drinkwater Tweet
• "Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd." - Thomas Mann Tweet
• "The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology." - Basil Bunting 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
• "I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic." - Joni Mitchell Tweet