Robin Skelton
Robin Skelton
Robin Skeltonwas a British-born academic, writer, poet, and anthologist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 October 1925
distance philosophical language
It is the distance between us that creates language.
habit revelations loses
Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.
falling-in-love fall men
Men who like women rarely fall in love.
vices virtue pleasure
A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
history bones length
I have no history but the length of my bones.
dream bed found
More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.
believe men should
Some part of us still believes that men should kill.
believe doubt
Never believe what you cannot doubt.
headlines
Headlines pass; breadlines continue.
firsts cuffs said
Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.
skills
It requires less skill to love than to be loved.
editors
Procrustes was an editor.
bows
Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.
mystery solve
Death is the only mystery we all solve.