Tamsin

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
― John Henry Newman

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters