“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 you don't obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces.” — 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
