All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

pared-down precision and scorching intensity - Helen Dunmore

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

Man differs more from man than man from beast.

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

Alice Oswald throws the windows of the imagination open; she places a fingertip on the pulse of tradition, and proves it is still very much alive - The Times

Among the finest of our poets. - Melvyn Bragg

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