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

A poem is a little moment of belief. - Jackie Kay

...the communication of the dead/is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. - from Part 1 of 'Little Gidding', T. S. Eliot

There is no gaudiness in her poetry; instead the reader is aware of a generosity of spirit which allows the poems' subjects their own unbullied reality. - The Listener

We were testing the range of the human voice - 'The Shout', Simon Armitage