Douglas Dunn

“What I love about the Arran mountains is that they are living mountains, going about their business of being mountains.”

“Love is a country where we are all exiles.”

“I write out of my life, my town, my time. This is all I have, all that I am.”

“They are my words, and they are yours. You can use them. You can use them against me.”

“Remember you must live. Remember you must love. Forgive, and be forgiven.”

“On this new day, this slate of now, I write your name.”

“There are no days off for the poet.”

“The modern is not a style, it is a situation.”

“Let the rain come down, the romantic landscape of the poor.”

“A man is a city, a city is a man.”

“Poetry is a species of memory... It's a way of remembering what it is to be human.”

“You are a chosen people. You are a chosen people. But you have chosen nothing.”