"Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'"

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Source : Interview with Britt Collins, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2009.

Jasmine Guinness

#Bogs Quotes #Mum Quotes

“...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.”
“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?”
“Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.”
“I remember being a 12 year old art kid and feeling like there was no exciting art movement happening, especially for somebody like me. I was looking around for artistic inspiration and could find nothing â€” until my older brotherâ€™s friend brought a Giger book over to the house. Upon seeing the first image I knew I would never be the same. A whole new world opened up to me and I have been exploring it ever since. Itâ€™s no doubt that I would not be here today, doing what I do, without his influence. H.R. Giger is the king of the Dark Art movement.”
“The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Brower (1968). “Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower”, Belknap Press
“The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.”
“I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.”
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

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