A poet of rare lyric intensity - Oxford Companion to English Literature

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

I might have known, / What far too soon, alas! I learn'd / The heart can bind itself alone, / And faith may oft be unreturn'd.' Matthew Arnold, 'Isolation: To Marguerite'

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

Are words no more than waving, wavering flags? - 'The right word', Imtiaz Dharker

...the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music... the music reflects the historical experience. - Linton Kwesi Johnson

Sitting around an old table/they drew lines across the map/dividing the place/I would call my country. Choman Hardi 'Lausanne, 1923'

At once catalogues of ordinary, precise vision...and poems of musical and metaphysical ambition, Maguire is the heiress of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Adam Phillips, The Observer

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. - Stephen Spender