Blake Morrison Quotes

At times of crisis or distress, it’s poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people’s feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can’t. There’s a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you’re not writing poetry, but actually as long as I’m writing something, I’m happy.

The selective memory isn’t selective enough.

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren’t the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books – the best books – give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.