""Poetry = Anger x Imagination""
— Sherman Alexie

"Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. "
— Pablo Neruda

""Poetry is language playing with itself." "
— Harryette Mullen

"In seeking specific technical information, we discover that behind the hysteria of male expertise lies the magic world of our unmade art."
— Le Tigre

"I always get a little bit irritated when people talk about 'bringing poetry to the people' especially those poet - performers who seem to assume their audience hasn't read anything, as though 'the people' were some ignorant mass incapable of taste. 'Bringing poetry to the people'? Speaking as a people, I go out and get it as long as its available. When people hear any kind of excellence or panache in the use of language in pop songs or movies they notice it, they talk about it. That's because it's available - inescapable, in fact - while my local library is shutting down."
— Michael Donaghy