John Burnside Quotes
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The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the…
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As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasn’t here. Before that, my parents weren’t here.…
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Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of…
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Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need…
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That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you…
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My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force…
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and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to…
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