"A novel is a basket that carries inside it a dreamworld we wish to keep forever alive." Orhan Pamuk • The Guardian

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"If something is timeless, then it will also be timely." Robert Fagles on The Aeneid • The New York Times

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"Don Paterson has produced a Rilke who is riveting because of his difficulty." Adam Phillips • The Observer

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"Tomas Tranströmer is fascinated by the pressure between the world we know and the hidden world we cannot deny." Robin Robertson • The Guardian

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"For Paul Muldoon, tragic stories in arbitrary cages make for the ultimate effect." Helen Vendler • The New Republic

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"His method might be taken as playful, but there is nothing funny in what he is talking about." James Fenton on Paul Muldoon • The Guardian

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"Poetry is both flourishing and floundering in Britain because it has a split identity." Neil Astley • New Statesman poetry special

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"There is another lineage and avenue in Indian writing in English than the one Midnight's Children opened up." Amit Chaudhuri on Arun Kolatkar • The Guardian

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"Michael Longley is simultaneously the weightiest and most light-fingered of poets." David Wheatley • The Guardian

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"Lorca was a minstrel, and he understood poetry as an oral expression." Ralph Angel • Words Without Borders

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"If people in the future want to know what many lives were like in the second half of the 20th century, they should read Alan Brownjohn." Anthony Thwaite • The Guardian

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"Similar-looking poetic surfaces can be the manifestations of very different underlying aesthetics." Fragment, juxtaposition and completeness, by Tony Hoagland • The Cortland Review

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"A poet cannot create myths; he can only employ and embellish the ones he has inherited." Adam Kirsch on Hart Crane • The New Yorker

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