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- "On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it’s differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there."― Michael Cunningham
- "There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."― Peter Davison
- "I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost’ to translate it."― Callan McAuliffe