So oft as I her beauty do behold. - Edmund Spenser 'Amoretti LV'

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape.? William Shakespeare

My goal is to combine the confessionalism of the Alvarez era with the modernist panache of the Forties poets I admire. Todd Swift

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti

For grief indeed is love, and grief beside.

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'

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