• "It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge." - Brooks Atkinson Tweet
• "Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race." - Johann Georg Hamann Tweet
• "I write poetry in order to live more fully." - Judith Rodriguez Tweet
• "It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate." - Jenny Holzer Tweet
• "Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet." - David Duchovny Tweet
• "You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart." - Carol Ann Duffy Tweet
• "Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is." - James Branch Cabell Tweet
• "I've written some poetry I don't understand myself." - Carl Sandburg Tweet
• "I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction." - Robert Morgan Tweet
• "And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written." - Mark Strand Tweet