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- One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire
- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. — Robert Morgan
- Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis
- That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. — Edgar Allan Poe
- All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. — Edgar Allan Poe
- Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. — Edgar Allan Poe