I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi

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

A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree. Gerard Manley Hopkins

Logical argument is what destroys poetry because poetry is beyond logic. - Robert Graves

I, too, sing America. - 'I, Too', Langston Hughes

With a lyric poem, you look, and meditate, and put the rock back. With fiction you poke things with a stick to see what will happen. - Margaret Atwood