"No poet is ever completely lost. He has……" — Peter Ackroyd
"No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there."
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67 Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd has 67 quotes on this site.
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and…
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work…
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
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Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
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Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
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It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body…
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London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made,…
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just…
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What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native…
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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
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Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave.…
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant…
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by…
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Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this…
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