Morley conjures a marvellous sense of nature as intimacy, something precise yet loaded and of immense importance to us. George Szirtes

All books are merely delayed dust. - George Elliott Clarke

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

Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent

And I could see that child's one eye which seemed to laugh, and say with glee: 'what caused my death you'll never know, perhaps my mother murdered me.' - W.H. Davies - 'The Inquest'

So oft as I her beauty do behold. - Edmund Spenser 'Amoretti LV'

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape.? William Shakespeare

My goal is to combine the confessionalism of the Alvarez era with the modernist panache of the Forties poets I admire. Todd Swift

Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti

For grief indeed is love, and grief beside.