I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
“Valentine Weather Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.” — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
“There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon sitting on the step of the open french window facing each other… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry.… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
