"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad." Lord Byron

Louise Bogan's art is compactness compacted. Emotion with her, as she has said of certain fiction, is 'itself form, the kernel which builds outward form from inward intensity.' Marianne Moore

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black. . . Gwendolyn Brooks

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

'The song would speak/ Of that interminable building reared/ By observation of affinities/ In objects where no brotherhood exists/ To passive minds' - William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book 2

For grief indeed is love, and grief beside.

God is the perfect poet.

Ecstatic, quicksilver poems, ablaze with originality, curiosity and a passion for words. Ruth Padel

"Think small. If you have a big mind, it will show itself." Richard Hugo

wen yuh see she walk//holdin freedom water//balance pon she head - 'caribbean woman', Jean 'Binta' Breeze

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative. From 'Strong Words', John Burnside

Keenly felt; passionately, precisely and lyrically conveyed - Simon Armitage