[Judith Shakespeare] lives in you and in me [...] she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret tra…”

“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your…”

“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest …”

“That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incomp…”