Quotes by : John Burnside

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable....

If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language....

What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity....

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we....

If you had to lose everything, what would you miss most? It wouldn't be anything gross, like the big....

It's laughable, looking back, to see the processes I went through, pretending to make a reasoned decision.....

With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking,....

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators,....

Poetry stands or falls by its music.

When Mother had told me that animals found quiet, unexposed places to die, I had always imagined they....