We are born to bring light / To honour the blessing of each moment / The gift of every life - Malika Ndlovu

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy

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

Among the finest of our poets. - Melvyn Bragg

All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell

Finely wrought verse that is tough, but also lyrical. A distinctive new voice - Neil Rollinson

I think so highly of poetry that I've dedicated my life to it. It's the most important thing to me. - Kit Wright

A writer is not interested in explaining reality; he's interested in capturing it. - Brendan Kennelly

My poems are the product of a relationship between a side of my mind which is conscious, alert, educated and manipulative, and a side which is as murky as a primaeval swamp. - Andrew Motion

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