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- Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire
- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. — Paul Muldoon
- Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon
- One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon