'this spiral / of making while unmaking while / the world goes round' -- Mary Jo Salter, 'Young Girl Peeling Apples'

With walking sick, with curtseys lame, and frighted by the scolding dame, poor Mira once again is seen within the bounds of Goslin-Green. - Mary Leapor 'The Visit'

So oft as I her beauty do behold. - Edmund Spenser 'Amoretti LV'

Poetry is the most elemental of the written arts.

'No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.' Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

All things within this fading world hath end. ('Before the Birth of One of Her Children')

Each sharp star speaks of something long gone - 'Cactus', Siobhan Harvey

As activities, writing poetry and climbing have few connections, apart from a heightened sense of being and awareness, of being fully engaged. Andrew Greig

Hampton is an open-minded writer, with the uncertainties and hesitations of the true seeker. - Stephen Lawrence