„Your very flesh shall be a great poem…“

— Walt Whitman
„Love the earth and sun and animals,Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,Stand up for the stupid and crazy,Devote your income and labor to others…And your very flesh shall be a great poem.“
— Walt Whitman
„In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.“
— James Joyce
„This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.... The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured.... others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches.... and shall master all attachment.“
— Walt Whitman
„There neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified — more supremely noble than this very poem — this poem per se — this poem which is a poem and nothing more — this poem written solely for the poem's sake.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Though I be no more in flesh and blood, I shall ever protect my devotees. I shall be with you the moment you think of me.“
— Sai Baba of Shirdi
„She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty… but at the same time very deep, very smart.“
— Johnny Depp
„I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.“
— Chuck Palahniuk