Blake Morrison Professions : Poet Born : October 8, 1950 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Blake Morrison Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too. Blake Morrison knives editing writing 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. Blake Morrison giving believe book The selective memory isn't selective enough. Blake Morrison selective enough memories 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. Blake Morrison writing grieving long Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
