I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. - Maxine Kumin

C. K. Williams is a wonderful poet, in the authentic American tradition of Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, who tells us on every page what it means to be alive in our time. - Stanley Kunitz

The blood jet is poetry,/ There is no stopping it. - 'Kindness', Sylvia Plath (written 1st February 1963)

The kind of poetry that excites me is the kind that comes closest to direct communication, the kind of communication that one can sometimes feel without words in a look or a gesture. - Edwin Brock

A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney

Hers is a daybook of a night-nurse of the soul - John Mole, 'Encounter'