And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. - Walt Whitman 'Dirge For Two Veterans'

A frail, dead, new-born lamb, ghostly and pitiful and white a blot upon the night, the moon's dropped child! - Charlotte Mew, 'Fame'

Anonymous is a well-known and prolific poet.

Poetry is the most elemental of the written arts.

No other British poet I am aware of can match the powerful mythic imagination of Pascale Petit - Les Murray

Ah! why has happiness no second spring? Charlotte Smith

His poetry is what all poetry should be, the surprising and beautiful organisation of things that life has disorganised. John Fuller

I might have known, / What far too soon, alas! I learn'd / The heart can bind itself alone, / And faith may oft be unreturn'd.' Matthew Arnold, 'Isolation: To Marguerite'

All things within this fading world hath end. ('Before the Birth of One of Her Children')

Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime. Andrew Marvell, 'To His Coy Mistress'

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge