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

It is not so difficult to kindle the poetic fire in the first place as to keep it going, hot and bright, through a whole lifetime. - Thom Gunn

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will always be another poet. - Stevie Smith

After 39 years, this is all I've done. - Dylan Thomas' final words

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. - Ogden Nash

In a dark time the eye begins to see - 'In a Dark Time', Theodore Roethke

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. - Anne Sexton

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

I would say that the poem exists in a space somewhere between the reader and the author, and in a sense belongs to neither, and both. - Don Paterson

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

Finely wrought verse that is tough, but also lyrical. A distinctive new voice - Neil Rollinson