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> [“Fate's book, but my italics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/fate-s-book-but-my-italics/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

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## More by Don Paterson

> [“While you spoke, it reached into the room switching off the mirrors in their frames and undeveloping your photographs; it gently drew a knife…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/while-you-spoke-it-reached-into-the-room-switching-off-the-mirrors-in/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [“Fate's book, but my italics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/fate-s-book-but-my-italics/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/the-poem-in-a-sense-is-no-more-or-less-than-a-little-machine-for/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/lurking-behind-this-connecting-silence-is-a-brooding-suspicion-over/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [“forget the ink, the milk, the blood - all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/forget-the-ink-the-milk-the-blood-all-was-washed-clean-with-the-flood/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/there-s-no-fury-more-righteous-than-that-of-a-sinner-accused-of-the/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/we-could-easily-have-evolved-eyelids-thick-enough-to-keep-out-the/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [“A poetic form is essentially a codified pattern of silence. We have a little silence at the end of a line, a bigger one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/a-poetic-form-is-essentially-a-codified-pattern-of-silence-we-have-a/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/so-we-start-with-an-oversignifying-reader-those-texts-that-appear-to/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [“Critics all have this idea that authors inhabit another dimensional realm, right up to their first smack in the mouth - which feels to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/critics-all-have-this-idea-that-authors-inhabit-another-dimensional/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/imagine-your-shadow-burning-off-the-page-as-the-dear-world-and-the/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [We turn from the light to see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/we-turn-from-the-light-to-see/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/no-fury-more-righteous-than-that-of-a-sinner-accused-of-the-wrong-sin/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [“I can see exactly what not to do at the moment. No doubt through the usual process of elimination I'll arrive at my favourite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/i-can-see-exactly-what-not-to-do-at-the-moment-no-doubt-through-the/)

[Don Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-paterson/)

> [Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-paterson/mediocre-art-is-far-worse-than-bad-art-bad-art-does-not-waste-our-time/)

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