Vain are the thousand creeds / That move men's hearts... Emily Bronte

Inside every madeleine, you could say, there is a lamington waiting to come out - Vincent O'Sullivan, from 'On Longing'

There stands the base and root of the living rock /Thirty thousand feet of solid Cumberland. - To the River Duddon, Norman Nicholson

If we see light at the end of the tunnel / It's the light of the oncoming train. - Robert Lowell

Look for the opening of your spirit into the real world. This is the world in which your words ring true - Sebastian Barker

Informed by a sense of grace, of transcendence... the pieces are grounded in detail, beautifully expressed, subtly luminous. - The Guardian

What troubles me is a sense that so many things lovely and precious in our world seem to be dying out. Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. - Galway Kinnell

Every writer nearly always has a lost woman. - Patricia Beer

If I didn't write poetry I think I'd explode. - Charles Causley

Beyond decoration, humble, in plain rhyme, / As clear as I could, and as truthful - 'Beyond Decoration', P J Kavanagh