'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'

Poetry is the most elemental of the written arts.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. - Maxine Kumin

C. K. Williams is a wonderful poet, in the authentic American tradition of Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, who tells us on every page what it means to be alive in our time. - Stanley Kunitz