• "Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content." - Alfred de Musset Tweet
• "Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence." - Harry Mathews Tweet
• "When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you." - Story Musgrave Tweet
• "I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up." - Keith Haring Tweet
• "I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length." - John Ashbery Tweet
• "I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation." - Anthony Hope Tweet
• "And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will." - Ezra Pound 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
• "I write poetry in order to live more fully." - Judith Rodriguez Tweet
• "He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech." - John Colville Tweet