• "Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind." - Don Marquis Tweet
• "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 Joyce Tweet
• "I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it." - Callan McAuliffe Tweet
• "The poet doesn't invent. He listens." - Jean Cocteau Tweet
• "Poetry lies its way to the truth." - John Ciardi Tweet
• "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 Dove Tweet
• "But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me." - Peter Davison Tweet
• "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 Dawkins Tweet
• "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 Strand Tweet
• "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 Rushdie Tweet