Man differs more from man than man from beast.

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.

The simple lack / Of her is more to me / Than others' presence. Edward Thomas, 'The Unknown'

The best reading of a poem involves a simultaneous engagement of the eye and ear.

The Laureate of Gloucestershire

Through the sparseness and compression, Laird generates a haunting trove of subtle and enriching tonal orchestrations - Alan Gillis

My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen

The eye, it cannot choose but see; / We cannot bid the ear be still; / Our bodies feel, where'er they be, / Against or with our will. Wordsworth, 'Expostulation and Reply'

Shout Ha! to the Sky - Robert Sullivan

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad." Lord Byron

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

The poem is an object which we make and set down, like an antique torso in an abandoned city, good, self-sufficient, durable, waiting for the people to come back. - M K Joseph