Christopher Logue Quotes

#1. Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

Dolores Del Rio

#2. I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Edmund Burke

#3. Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came
And he pushed
And they flew.

Christopher Logue

#4. And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!

Christopher Logue

#5. It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.

Christopher Logue

#6. Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.

Jack Kerouac

#7. Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

Christopher Logue

#8. Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head.

Christopher Logue

#9. Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.

Christopher Logue

#10. What happened if you melted a person down layer by layer? What if there was nothing between the layers, and nothing at the centre, only quiet?

Madeleine Thien

#11. I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

Gabrielle Aplin