Edwin Morgan Quotes

#1. It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#2. Everything, as you well know ... cannot always be sweetness and light.

Kate DiCamillo

#3. Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.

Edwin Morgan

#4. Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

Robert South

#6. Yes, that was the unbearable thing: having to go on, after your life has been ripped apart, while you struggle to understand how in a split second the whole world has unbelievably changed.

Clare Curzon

#7. As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know?

Annie Lennox

#8. I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

Edwin Morgan

#9. The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.

George Eliot

#10. People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

Edwin Morgan

#11. One other question. Would it be acceptable to destroy a universe in the name of a greater love?"
The waiter laughs.
"Are you God or just gay?"
"Neither, but thank you for your answer.

Paulo Coelho

#12. I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

Edwin Morgan

#13. Sorrow herself will reveal one day that she was only the beneficent shadow of Joy. Will Evil ever show herself the beneficent shadow of Good?

George MacDonald

#14. Valentine Weather
Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
come on, let us sway together,
under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

Edwin Morgan

#15. I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

Donald Rumsfeld

#16. Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle.

#17. I'm simply reminding you that you're worth more than what you'll find at the bottom of a bottle.

Myra McEntire

#18. Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Edwin Morgan

#19. I didn't choose you, but I sure as fuck can't free myself of you.

Katy Evans

#20. It would be an advance if the secular theoretical establishment, and the contemporary enlightened culture which it dominates, could wean itself of the materialism and Darwinism of the gaps

Thomas Nagel

#21. I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Edwin Morgan