These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'

My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen

An engraver in short, sharp slashes that go deep. Andrew Salkey

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

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound