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

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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'

All things within this fading world hath end. ('Before the Birth of One of Her Children')

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

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

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