Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe. 'Paradise Lost'

It was no dream: I lay broad waking. Thomas Wyatt 'They Flee From Me'

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

“A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”

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

Fuller is a wonderfully skilled craftsman and the grace and elegance of his style is at the service of not only a sharp wit and intelligence, but a great depth of feeling. - Sunday Telegraph

The furthest distances I've travelled/ have been those between people. Leontia Flynn

The lower-case lightness of Tom Raworth and the northern comic realism of Simon Armitage - The Guardian

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion. Carol Ann Duffy

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. But the fact that writers are dealing with essential issues...I think that's a necessary integration of literary writing with what's actually going on in our world. - Marilyn Hacker

I am a poet who is a woman, not a woman poet. - Ruth Fainlight