Complex sentence: Gopi K Kottoor (b.1956, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala), Indian English poet, is in the words of the eminent poet-critic Ayyappa Paniker, "a poet who has discovered his own voice distinct from that of his ancestors or his compeers".
Split into simpler sentences: Gopi K Kottoor (b.1956, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala), Indian English poet. To quote eminent poet-critic Ayyappa Paniker about Kottoor, "a poet who has discovered his own voice distinct from that of his ancestors or his compeers".