Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, nor swifter greyhound follow, whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, nor ear heard huntsman's halloo'. - William Cowper 'Epitaph on a hare'

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

“A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”

The blood jet is poetry,/ There is no stopping it. - 'Kindness', Sylvia Plath (written 1st February 1963)

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems. - Larkin to his publisher