"Tempest has forged their own voice, unlike anything else in the mainstream poetry world." - The Independent

The simple lack / Of her is more to me / Than others' presence. Edward Thomas, 'The Unknown'

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me. - Laurie Lee

I have tried to be faithful to delight... - Ruth Pitter

And some are sparkling, laughing, singing,/Young, heroic, mild;/And some incurable, twisted,/Shrieking, dumb, defiled. - 'Can You Remember?, Edmund Blunden

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. - W. H. Auden

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems. - Larkin to his publisher