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.

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

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

Poetry's about what can't be said. WS Merwin

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

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black. . . Gwendolyn Brooks

I am a poet who is a woman, not a woman poet. - Ruth Fainlight