Quotes from Nick Laird

There is such a shelter in each other.

A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

There is such a shelter in each other.

We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.

an English girl might well believe that time is how you spend your love.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

time is how you spend your love ...

There is no privilege as great as that enjoyed by those 'To Whom Things Come Easily'.

Time is how you spend your love. From his poem The Last Saturday In Ulster

Let me be clear and accomodative, more like water than ice; and raise my hands to show I mean no harm, and that I'm stupid, and malicious, and if I'm trying to be fearless I know it gives me no right to act like this.

What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.