Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility ... Stimulating, resourceful and often very funny - The Guardian

I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi

The simple lack / Of her is more to me / Than others' presence. Edward Thomas, 'The Unknown'

This is a poet of both truth and beauty - Rory Waterman, Times Literary Supplement

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me. - Laurie Lee

I have tried to be faithful to delight... - Ruth Pitter

And some are sparkling, laughing, singing,/Young, heroic, mild;/And some incurable, twisted,/Shrieking, dumb, defiled. - 'Can You Remember?, Edmund Blunden

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. - W. H. Auden

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems. - Larkin to his publisher

Poetry is the voice of spirit and imagination and all that is potential, as well as of the healing benevolence that used to be the privilege of the gods. - Ted Hughes

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

Come close the flower says and we come close, / close enough to lift, cup and smell the rose - 'Come Close', Mimi Khalvati