“The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself...fly under… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
“The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
“Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
“When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.” — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
“The whole thing starts with a single knot and needles. A word and pen. Tie a loop in nothing. Look at it. Cast on,… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
“Your positive thinker may do well in suburbia but I'd rather be with a lucid depressive in the Arctic, where survival depends on precision… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
“The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
