Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

- Fleur Adcock

I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against t…

- Fleur Adcock

Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we …

- Fleur Adcock

You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If i…

- Fleur Adcock

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspec…

- Fleur Adcock

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

- Fleur Adcock