Hugh Macdiarmid Quotes

#1. During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

Peter Lynch

#2. There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Hugh MacDiarmid

#3. Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

Hugh MacDiarmid

#4. Not now. He was quiet, and then he said, You are the only person in this world I want to have sitting here beside me. That isn't what I think, it's what I know. I guess it doesn't explain anything.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

Joseph Campbell

#6. Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

Hugh MacDiarmid

#7. Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

Jane Smiley

#8. In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

Hugh MacDiarmid

#9. The same quality that read as dependable and even-keeled in his youth had crusted over and become stubborn and pitiable.

Angela Flournoy

#10. It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

Hugh MacDiarmid

#11. The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

Hugh MacDiarmid

#12. You have to remember, I didn't want this life.

Robert Goulet

#13. Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

Hugh MacDiarmid