I am a poet who is a woman, not a woman poet. - Ruth Fainlight

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me. - Laurie Lee

There stands the base and root of the living rock /Thirty thousand feet of solid Cumberland. - To the River Duddon, Norman Nicholson

We lie on love's breath - Jan Kemp, 'Puriri'

I try to honor my reader's patience and generosity by presenting what I have to say as clearly and succinctly as possible. - Ted Kooser

Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it... - William Carlos Williams

Things change, become home and we must leave them - Lavinia Greenlaw, 'Guidebooks to the Alhambra'

Informed by a sense of grace, of transcendence... the pieces are grounded in detail, beautifully expressed, subtly luminous. - The Guardian

Where is the spirit that touched the hearts / Lightly - chameleon colours of home? - 'Visiting Zomba Plateau', Jack Mapanje

Every writer nearly always has a lost woman. - Patricia Beer

All poems are rash acts. - Allen Curnow

Hers is a daybook of a night-nurse of the soul - John Mole, 'Encounter'