Man, you call yourself a poet and you don't know chickadees? Amy Clampitt

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

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini. Paul Muldoon.

Hampton is an open-minded writer, with the uncertainties and hesitations of the true seeker. - Stephen Lawrence

All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell

Paying attention - listening - to one kind of complexity tells us something about the complexity of experience in general. Fiona Sampson

Compose aloud; poetry is sound. - Advice to young poets, Basil Bunting

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

the patron saint of poetry - Carol Ann Duffy

What happens with me is quite often I start with a memory, mix it with observations of people I know and then mix in a bit of 'What if...?' - Michael Rosen

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

Beyond decoration, humble, in plain rhyme, / As clear as I could, and as truthful - 'Beyond Decoration', P J Kavanagh