All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

A poet of rare lyric intensity - Oxford Companion to English Literature

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

His poetry is what all poetry should be, the surprising and beautiful organisation of things that life has disorganised. John Fuller

I might have known, / What far too soon, alas! I learn'd / The heart can bind itself alone, / And faith may oft be unreturn'd.' Matthew Arnold, 'Isolation: To Marguerite'

Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime. Andrew Marvell, 'To His Coy Mistress'

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who wants to know / a story's end, or where a road will go? - Sheenagh Pugh, 'What If This Road'

To see the Summer Sky / Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie? / True Poems flee?

Dorothea Smartt reveals a poetic intelligence and maturity of form and content which definitely locates her among the best of her generation of poets. - Carol Boyce Davies