Former Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Poetry Society poet-in-residence and TES Guest Poet, Dr. Cliff Yates explains what drew him to poetry – the distinctive value of silence in the process of writing. This inspiration led him to not only develop and hone his skills as a highly regarded poet, but to teach and inspire others to locate the field of infinite silence in consciousness, the source of all creative expression, which is directly experienced through practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique.