• "The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair." - Jose Bergamin Tweet
• "I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that." - Diane Wakoski Tweet
• "From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound." - Nicholson Baker Tweet
• "I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry." - Andrew Motion Tweet
• "Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one." - Eugenio Montale Tweet
• "I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords." - Patti Smith Tweet
• "Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore." - Wallace Stevens Tweet
• "What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison." - Patti Smith Tweet
• "I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country." - Will Cuppy Tweet
• "But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events." - Diane Wakoski Tweet