11+ Don Paterson Quotes On Education

Don Paterson is a Scottish poet, editor, and writer. He has published several collections of poetry, including God's Gift to Women (1999), Landing Light (2003), and Rain (2009). He has also edited several anthologies of poetry and is a professor at the University of St Andrews. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Don Paterson on education, life, leadership.

We turn from the light to see. — Don Paterson

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage — Don Paterson

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast. — Don Paterson

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin. — Don Paterson

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. — Don Paterson

So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find exceptionally suggestive, apposite, or musical - are usually adjudged to be 'poetic'. ... The work of the poet is to contribute a text that will firstly invite such a reading; and secondly reward such a reading. — Don Paterson

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act. — Don Paterson

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time. — Don Paterson

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe. — Don Paterson

Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them. — Don Paterson

This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate. — Don Paterson

Life Lessons by Don Paterson

Don Paterson's work teaches us to be mindful of the power of language and its ability to evoke emotion. He reminds us to be conscious of the impact our words can have on others, and to be open to the possibility of finding beauty in the everyday. His work also encourages us to explore the depths of our own creativity and to express ourselves in ways that are meaningful and true.