• "And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so." - Norman MacCaig Tweet
• "I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry." - Randall Jarrell Tweet
• "However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it." - James Schuyler Tweet
• "Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse." - Robert W. Service Tweet
• "Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks." - Edward Koch Tweet
• "The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy." - Louis Kronenberger Tweet
• "Poetry is composing for the breath." - Peter Davison Tweet
• "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony." - Horace Walpole Tweet
• "Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends." - Virginia Woolf Tweet
• "The poetry of the earth is never dead." - John Keats Tweet