Quote of the day

"It's not so much that poetry matters as it won't go away. Language is a poetic system. Poetry's just what happens to it when you put it under a bit of formal pressure and emotional heat. So I don't know if it matters, as such: it's deeper than that. It's just language's way of keeping itself vital."

Two-time TS Eliot Prize winner and Picador poetry editor Don Paterson in this Sunday Torygraph article on the continued good health of the art form in the UK, which makes for interesting reading in the light of the Right To Reply feature on the topic from two years ago.