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Don Paterson è uno scrittore e poeta scozzese, insignito dell'OBE e membro della Royal Society of Literature, svolge anche attività di musicista. Ha inoltre ricevuto la Medaglia d'Oro della Regina per la Poesia nel 2010..

Rinomato poeta scozzese, ha vinto diversi premi dal 1990 in poi, tra cui l‘Eric Gregory Award e l‘Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition . Incluso nella lista dei 20 poeti scelti dalla "Poetry Society " nei Poeti della nuova generazione del 1994. Nel 2002 è stato premiato dallo Scottish Arts Council col Premio "Creative Scotland Award".

Don Paterson insegna nella facoltà di Letteratura inglese alla Università di St. Andrews ed è curatore della serie poetica dell'editore Picador. È inoltre un dotato chitarrista jazz e conduce da dieci anni il gruppo jazz-folk Lammas, col sassofonista Tim Garland. Paterson vive a St Andrews in Scozia. Wikipedia  

✵ 1963
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Don Paterson: Frasi in inglese

“The audience will always feel far more generous if, as some point in the evening, a little time has been found for them to applaud themselves.”

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Aphorisms in Poetry, vol. 187, n. 1, October 2005

“In the end, the desolate age always turns instinctively to Classicism, which if nothing else legislates against certain kinds of disappointment.”

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Aphorisms in Poetry, vol. 187, n. 1, October 2005

“Postmodernism will soon be confirmed as the American academic orthodoxy because it permits, ultimately, the summary dismissal of that last great inconvenience to the free and democratic intellect: the primary text.”

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Aphorisms in Poetry, vol. 187, n. 1, October 2005

“My late friend hated book-jackets, and ripped them all off immediately. I think he felt, somehow, that the book was still trying to sell him its contents after he had paid for it (or turn him in, if he had stolen it). Dejacketed, the book is anonymous and valueless. To translate something immediately into this state is an unequivocal act of proprietorship. You remove a book-jacket just as you make a lover naked: before their complete possession, they must be removed from the currency.”

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Aphorisms in Poetry, vol. 187, n. 1, October 2005

“Yes, I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far better; but let’s face it—you weren’t listening then either.”

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Aphorisms in Poetry, vol. 187, n. 1, October 2005

“I never fail to be mystified by those who regard the revision of a former opinion as a sign of weakness.”

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Aphorisms in Poetry, vol. 187, n. 1, October 2005

“I’m always amused by those commentators who nervously insist that the working class’s constant use of the word fuck is really just “a form of punctuation.””

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It is, however, no more or less then what they dread: an inexhaustible river of smelted wrath, a Phlegethon of ancestral grievance.
"Aphorisms" (2005)

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