“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

'There is no God,' the wicked saith, 'and truly it's a blessing, for what he might have done with us it's better only guessing.? - Arthur Hugh Clough 'There Is No God'

I believe that in all diverse forms of artistic expression across all countries, there are some sensitivities in common. Esther Phillips

Trenches of night between us ... - 'War History', Sam Hunt

My goal is to combine the confessionalism of the Alvarez era with the modernist panache of the Forties poets I admire. Todd Swift

I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.

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

Good words are worth much, and cost little.