• "Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way." - John Drinkwater Tweet
• "Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." - Don Marquis Tweet
• "The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life." - Robert Penn Warren Tweet
• "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." - Charles Simic Tweet
• "The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think." - June Jordan Tweet
• "One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry." - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Tweet
• "You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart." - Carol Ann Duffy Tweet
• "I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do." - David Antin Tweet
• "When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry." - Muhammad Iqbal Tweet
• "Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful." - Rita Dove Tweet