Brian Patten Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Through silence only the good messages go unheard.”
-- Brian Patten

#Silence #Messages #Unheard

“When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.”
-- Brian Patten

#Sight #Clothes #Poetry
“Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.”
-- Brian Patten

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“On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.”
-- Brian Patten

#Mind #Poet #Mathematics

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