With walking sick, with curtseys lame, and frighted by the scolding dame, poor Mira once again is seen within the bounds of Goslin-Green. - Mary Leapor 'The Visit'

That in humour the lyrical may flourish.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. - Ben Jonson 'Song To Celia'

Resonant and lyrical, linguistically precise and emotionally evasive, often at the same time - The Guardian

Man differs more from man than man from beast.

Poetry is a form of embodiment - Christian Campbell

'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight' Christopher Marlowe, 'Hero and Leander'

Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime. Andrew Marvell, 'To His Coy Mistress'

The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene ... has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart - Philip Larkin.

Air falls under the heavy yoke of bells - 'Sunday Morning', Denis Glover

In Smither's poems, the simplest details can be trapdoors to eternity - to 'take in life' can be a promise or a threat. - Hugh Roberts

There are few contemporary poets whose work breathes so broadly and generously. - Adam Thorpe