Robert Frank
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1924, Zürich, Switzerland, lives in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, and New York.]
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. 
Alec Soth
[Photographer, b. 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.]
[Photography is] very related to poetry. It’s suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It’s as much about what you leave out as what you put in. Charis Wilson
[Model, b. 1914, San Francisco, d. 2009, Santa Cruz, California.]
Well, there’s a famous limerick on [making love with the model]:While Titian was mixing rose madder,
His model was posed on a ladder,
Her position to Titian,
Suggested coition,
So he ran up the ladder and had her.
Jack Kerouac (Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac)
[Writer, b. 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts, d. 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida.]
Anybody doesn’t like these pitchers don’t like potry, see? Anybody don’t like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes. Charles Bukowski
[Writer, b. 1920, Andernach, Germany, d. 1994, San Pedro, California.]
I put her photo by the radionear the fan
and it moved
like something
alive.
Jay Maisel
[Photographer, b. 1931, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New York.]
I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I’ll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, “I try to create the poem from the evidence.” Tristan Tzara (Sami Rosenstock)
[Writer and artist, b. 1896, Moineti, Bacu, Romania, d. 1963, Paris.]
gloomy procession oh mechanics of the calendarwhere the synthetic photographs of days appear
the doll in the grave
Luc Delahaye
[Photographer, b. 1962, Tours, France, lives in Paris.]
What you want to be is a poet…. To voice the real and at the same time create an image that is a world in itself, with its own coherence, its autonomy and sovereignty; an image that thinks.