Quote by John Burnside Download Open image ““And I wake, in the cage of my bones, on the same cold ground.”” — John Burnside ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes the bravest thing in the world was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“They come with cold bones in heavy boots. See how they tremble. The folly of man . . .” — Becky Wright Copy Share Image
“We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.” — Fernando Lachica Copy Share Image
“and today, your bones gathered your skin and said 'Come on, let's do it again” — Upile Chisala Copy Share Image
“Waking up there is a numbness, a coldness that you never knew that had existed in you. I guess that's why things in the… — Anonymous1234 Copy Share Image
“i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem,… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries me forward… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion,… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
