• "I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits." - J. Carter Brown Tweet
• "For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming." - F. Scott Fitzgerald Tweet
• "I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business." - Henry David Thoreau Tweet
• "Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." - John Keats Tweet
• "I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing." - Carol Ann Duffy Tweet
• "But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry." - Chinua Achebe Tweet
• "We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words." - John Fowles Tweet
• "Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is." - James Broughton Tweet
• "But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me." - Peter Davison Tweet
• "However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird." - Norman MacCaig Tweet