• "Poetry and prayer are very similar." - Carol Ann Duffy Tweet
• "No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern." - Thomas Harrison Tweet
• "I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry." - Amber Tamblyn Tweet
• "High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this." - Diane Wakoski Tweet
• "I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords." - Andrew Bird Tweet
• "There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song." - Phil Ochs Tweet
• "Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose." - Elia Kazan Tweet
• "The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy." - James Broughton Tweet
• "Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training." - David Hunt Tweet
• "In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous." - Archie Shepp Tweet