• "There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry." - Eugenio Montale Tweet
• "Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry." - Julie Taymor Tweet
• "The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also." - Seamus Heaney Tweet
• "Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast." - Robert Morgan Tweet
• "Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it." - Roger McGough Tweet
• "To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry." - Laura Riding Tweet
• "Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language." - Lucille Clifton Tweet
• "High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this." - Diane Wakoski Tweet
• "There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny." - Lafcadio Hearn Tweet
• "I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity." - Philip Levine Tweet