“My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.”– Guy Johnson Related Quotes “Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.”– Peter Davison “Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I’ve managed to grow out of.”– Tom Holt “The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape?”– John C. Ransom