When all looks fair about, and thou seest not a cloud so big as a hand to threaten thee, forget not the wheel of things
–Browne
But man’s capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.
–Thoreau
You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.
–Alice Oswald
Beneath the ashes and the oncoming moon,
My phoenix-vision rising from the scorched heart.
(Jack Clemo)














