caress quotes

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

- Michael Mackintosh Foot
  Of  Aneurin Bevan.  Aneurin Bevan1897^1945, vol.1.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

- Adrian Mitchell
  'Poetry Lives', in the Sunday Times,13 Feb.