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Top 10 John Burnside Quotes (2025 Update)

John Burnside Quote: “Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.”

1. “Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “That’s the wonderful thing with nerds: they’re enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.”

2. “That’s the wonderful thing with nerds: they’re enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.”

3. “If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can’t bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.”

4. “The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can’t bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “It might sound sentimental to say it in so many words, but we are blessed by the dead, and we know that we are, in spite of our protestations to the contrary. They leave spaces in our lives that, for some of us, are the closest things to sacred we ever know. They are there and then they are gone and, after a time, we come to see a certain elegance in that – the elegance of a magic trick, say, where the conjuror rehearses the vanishing act that we must all accomplish sooner or later.”

5. “It might sound sentimental to say it in so many words, but we are blessed by the dead, and we know that we are, in spite of our protestations to the contrary. They leave spaces in our lives that, for some of us, are the closest things to sacred we ever know. They are there and then they are gone and, after a time, we come to see a certain elegance in that – the elegance of a magic trick, say, where the conjuror rehearses the vanishing act that we must all accomplish sooner or later.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born.”

6. “All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “This is the nature of social existence. We talk in order to impose limits, to contain the world in a narrow frame.”

7. “This is the nature of social existence. We talk in order to impose limits, to contain the world in a narrow frame.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “Sometimes, coming home in the early morning like this, I’d imagine things had altered while I was absent: a knife on the bread board that I didn’t remember leaving out, a book face down on the table, a cup brimming with tea and dishwater in the sink. The evidence I wanted didn’t need to be too elaborate or detailed. I could have constructed an entire afterlife from a half-moon of lemon rind or a small blister of jam on the tablecloth.”

8. “Sometimes, coming home in the early morning like this, I’d imagine things had altered while I was absent: a knife on the bread board that I didn’t remember leaving out, a book face down on the table, a cup brimming with tea and dishwater in the sink. The evidence I wanted didn’t need to be too elaborate or detailed. I could have constructed an entire afterlife from a half-moon of lemon rind or a small blister of jam on the tablecloth.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.”

9. “Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.”

10. “No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into believing that we live in sight of a rational space, a possible harmony.”

11. “The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into believing that we live in sight of a rational space, a possible harmony.”

— John Burnside

John Burnside Quote: “This is why the past seems perfect, a time of proportion and order, because it is immersed in speech. For animals, memory might reside as a sensation, a resonance in the nerves, or in the meat of the spine. But for humans, the past cannot be described except in words. It is nowhere else.”

12. “This is why the past seems perfect, a time of proportion and order, because it is immersed in speech. For animals, memory might reside as a sensation, a resonance in the nerves, or in the meat of the spine. But for humans, the past cannot be described except in words. It is nowhere else.”

— John Burnside

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