• "I've written some poetry I don't understand myself." - Carl Sandburg Tweet
• "This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul." - Eugenio Montale Tweet
• "The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives." - Paul Muldoon Tweet
• "But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it." - Ian Hamilton Finlay Tweet
• "I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots." - Camille Paglia Tweet
• "We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough." - Carl Sandburg Tweet
• "In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous." - Archie Shepp Tweet
• "Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true." - Lafcadio Hearn Tweet
• "I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it." - Allen Tate Tweet
• "Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow." - Andrew Motion Tweet