'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.'
Thomas Hardy
'Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.'
Muriel Rukeyser
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'
T. S. Eliot
'A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.'
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
'Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.'
Marianne Moore