• I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

    Dannie Abse: I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
    "Susannah Herbert on Dannie Abse, the poetry judge". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2014.