• "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry." - Havelock Ellis Tweet
• "I like poems that are little games." - Peter Davison Tweet
• "I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on." - Isaac Rosenberg Tweet
• "Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment." - Carl Sandburg Tweet
• "Poetry lies its way to the truth." - John Ciardi Tweet
• "Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture." - Ezra Pound Tweet
• "Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way." - Isaac Rosenberg Tweet
• "A grain of poetry suffices to season a century." - Jose Marti Tweet
• "It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal." - Carol Ann Duffy Tweet
• "I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it." - Tom Glazer Tweet