I'm drawn to what you might think of as traditional lyric poetry; it's an enduring, effective, powerful means of expression.

Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti

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

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'

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy

Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean. - Gwendolyn Brooks

His poems are direct and arresting, playful, full of startling imagery, and are hilarious, passionate and erotic as often as they are political - often managing to be all these things at once - Maura Dooley

Some of the most turbulent moments in life through a sharp, clear lens. Maura Dooley

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. - Stephen Spender

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

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. - 'Locksley Hall', Alfred Tennyson