A poem is a little moment of belief. - Jackie Kay

I believe even 5-year-olds can get something from a Shakespearean sonnet...as long as you DON'T tell them, 'This is really hard.' - Rita Dove

Logical argument is what destroys poetry because poetry is beyond logic. - Robert Graves

Where we are we belong,/Here or another place/How the tree speaks, talks/Of a fox passing through... - 'The Dream', Ken Smith

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling

Come close the flower says and we come close, / close enough to lift, cup and smell the rose - 'Come Close', Mimi Khalvati

Where is the spirit that touched the hearts / Lightly - chameleon colours of home? - 'Visiting Zomba Plateau', Jack Mapanje

A good-tasting homemade stew of angel and beast. - Charles Simic

If there is a unifying principle in his later work, it is expressed in a combination of plainness of utterance with a strong sense of poetry as a public and political art. - Sean O'Brien

Every writer nearly always has a lost woman. - Patricia Beer

I, too, sing America. - 'I, Too', Langston Hughes

People do seem to need poetry; it makes our ordinary life feel richer. - Elaine Feinstein