"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
- Robert Frost

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of Imagination." - John Keats

" I wish all our clever young poets would remember by homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose equals words in their best order; poetry equals the best words in the best order."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices." - Lorna Dee Cervantes

"A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words."
- Robert Frost