I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi

And I could see that child's one eye which seemed to laugh, and say with glee: 'what caused my death you'll never know, perhaps my mother murdered me.' - W.H. Davies - 'The Inquest'

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape.? William Shakespeare

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti

For grief indeed is love, and grief beside.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree. Gerard Manley Hopkins

The lower-case lightness of Tom Raworth and the northern comic realism of Simon Armitage - The Guardian

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion. Carol Ann Duffy