Quotes from Douglas Dunn

I've always thought my poems told stories.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

I dropped my penny in the well of dreams, Into a deep, dark, distant, delayed splash. The world was everything that thinks and seems When I was twelve years old and dogging off Into a free mind, writing reams and reams— Invisible paper, invisible ink … from "Disenchantments

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.