"So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin..." - Arthur Rimbaud

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

The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene ... has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart - Philip Larkin.

Air falls under the heavy yoke of bells - 'Sunday Morning', Denis Glover

She is all States, and all princes I, / Nothing else is. John Donne

...the communication of the dead/is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. - from Part 1 of 'Little Gidding', T. S. Eliot