• "I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up." - Keith Haring Tweet
• "My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did." - Dylan Walsh Tweet
• "I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale." - Robert Morgan Tweet
• "On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton." - Richard Serra 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
• "Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act." - A. E. Housman Tweet
• "My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time." - Herschel Walker Tweet
• "Every single soul is a poem." - Michael Franti Tweet
• "I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat." - Alfred Edward Housman Tweet
• "Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations." - Horace Walpole Tweet