John Agard famous quotes

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I was once naÃ¯ve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
...You know what I mean?
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

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