Anonymous is a well-known and prolific poet.

Who says the world is not a wedding? - 'O Taste and See', Dannie Abse

Art's whatever you choose to frame. - 'Leaving the Tate', Fleur Adcock

We were testing the range of the human voice - 'The Shout', Simon Armitage

For me, poetry is very much the time that it takes to unroll, the way music does...it's not a static, contemplatable thing like a painting or a piece of sculpture. - John Ashbery

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

I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi

Forget the corny comedian: Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of life. - Sunday Times

Allen writes poetry that is limpid, very subtle and marvellously wise. - William Boyd

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'

'here I am, on the edge of animation, / a dream, a dance, a fantastic construction'. Moniza Alvi

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. - W. H. Auden