May Quote by John Hegley

Sometimes you're the train, sometimes you're the track.

— Luke Bryan

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

— Nina Bawden

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway…

— Dylan Thomas

I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.

— Irvine Welsh

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

— James Fenton

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing…

— Theo Dorgan

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

— Diane Glancy

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

— Virginia Woolf

Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category.

— Michael Portillo

“Poems arrive ready to begin. Poets are only the transportation.”

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask…

— Anonymous