Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

And die of nothing but a rage to live

Gissa smile Sun, giss yr best / good mawnin' one, fresh 'n cool like - 'Sun O (2)', Hone Tuwhare

The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself. William Blake

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

Rest on memory's sea-bed: we will swim down to thee. - Andrew Johnston, 'The Sunflower'

An engraver in short, sharp slashes that go deep. Andrew Salkey

Forget the corny comedian: Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of life. - Sunday Times

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

...anything I have seen, I've only seen by virtue of having been very inattentive or rebellious at school, and looking at what was out of the corner of the picture, what was outside the frame. - Roy Fisher

...if poetry is a method of approaching truths, and each of us with a human soul and 'a tongue in oor heids' can make an approach toward a truth, poetry is inherently democratic. - Kathleen Jamie