In poetry much of the sense and most of the pleasure resides in the sounds the poem make. - Michael Schmidt

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

Prose and poetry are different in construction. You can lie back and read prose, and you can read it fast. Poetry on the other hand, requires a different kind of attention and concentration … the effect it has on the ear and the imagination.

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