"Poetry is a language with a shape"

"We read with our ears"

"In poetry much of the sense and most of the pleasure resides in the sounds the poem make."

"What matters in poetry is form, how words work together, the sounds and silences their combinations make. The ordered…"

"A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world."

"Poetry is a collaborative art, and yet—as it is being created—the most solitary and 'individual' of activities."

"Poetry is a process, a form of discovery, which if it serves a cause, transcends it."

"Prose and poetry are different in construction. You can lie back and read prose, and you can read it fast. Poetry on …"

"Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it."

"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it not as just so much air, water, and real estate, bu…"