Valerie Gillies writes like the wind and jinks like a hare in the fields of language - The Scotsman

Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.

Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The eye, it cannot choose but see; / We cannot bid the ear be still; / Our bodies feel, where'er they be, / Against or with our will. Wordsworth, 'Expostulation and Reply'

My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen

In these times, we should be glad of this voice. - Kate Clanchy, The Guardian

A poem is a little moment of belief. - Jackie Kay

Logical argument is what destroys poetry because poetry is beyond logic. - Robert Graves

A writer is not interested in explaining reality; he's interested in capturing it. - Brendan Kennelly