I'm no novelist.Or anything else, I suppose, except, just possibly a poet, once in a while. - Vernon Scannell

The servicemen of the 1939 - 45 war could not be disillusioned because they held not illusions to start with, the most common mood found everywhere was one of dour resolution, skeptical, resigned.

The desire of a poet for his writings to be in print is as natural as a painter needs to exhibit his work in public.

Well, here I suppose is my life, or part of it, by which I would wish to be judged... poems which have been written from a sense of compulsion, a real need to explore and articulate experiences which have been important to me.