4 Quotes by Iain Crichton Smith

Here they have no time for the fine gracesof poetry, unless it freely growsin deep compulsion, like water in the well,woven into the texture of the soilin a strong pattern.

To come to the door and know that she would find no one: to see a house completely empty. It was like coming to her tomb while she was still alive.

The truth? What's that? Don't you know that the day has come when the truth is what we care to make it?

We are free... we are really free to live and to die. If it were not so we would have been told.