"It is the ordinary, the overlooked, the quotidian, the supposedly familiar and commonplace that is the place of the miraculous, the numinous. ...anything clearly seen and severely framed can be a poem providing one glimpses in it a polarity." - C. Simic

"The narrowest of these paths, the poet's beautiful tightrope walk, is the one between sense and mystery -- to make one, while revealing the other." - Don Paterson

"...vulnerable but obstinate, unjust but impassioned for justice, doing his work without shame or pride in view of everybody, not ceasing to be divided between sorrow and beauty, and devoted finally to drawing from his double existence the creations that he obstinately tries to erect in the destructive movement of history." -- Camus