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title: "2 Iain Crichton Smith Quotes"
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# Iain Crichton Smith

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##  Quotes by Iain Crichton Smith

> [“We are free... we are really free to live and to die. If it were not so we would have been told.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-crichton-smith/we-are-free-we-are-really-free-to-live-and-to-die-if-it-were-not-so/)

[Iain Crichton Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-crichton-smith/)

[Free](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/free/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/259/iain-crichton-smith-90983_free_we-are-free-we-are-really-free-to-live-a_527673.jpg)

> [“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-crichton-smith/here-they-have-no-time-for-the-fine-graces-of-poetry-unless-it-freely/)

[Iain Crichton Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-crichton-smith/)

[Poetry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/)

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