• "Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art." - Thomas Hardy Tweet
• "My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen." - Jack Bowman Tweet
• "The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?" - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Tweet
• "When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry." - Nicholson Baker Tweet
• "Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you." - Jim Morrison Tweet
• "At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun." - Rene Auberjonois Tweet
• "Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words." - Tahar Ben Jelloun Tweet
• "One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry." - Nathalie Sarraute Tweet
• "What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry." - Laurie Lee Tweet
• "If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry." - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Tweet