Alasdair Gray: Goodness

Alasdair Gray was Scottish writer and artist. Explore interesting quotes on goodness.

Alasdair Gray: 16 quotes0 likes

“She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.”

Alasdair Gray book Poor Things

Source: Poor Things

“A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seed-word is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but or if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb.”

"Prometheus", pp. 208-9.
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)

“A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seed-word is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but or if.”

Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb.
"Prometheus", pp. 208-9.
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)