Scottish Poetry Quotes

“Landscape is my religion.

...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool
In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood
Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches
And floored with a skin of water. ”
― Norman MacCaig, The Poems of Norman MacCaig

“I think these movements and become them, here,
In this room's stillness, none of them about,
And relish them all-until I think of where
Thrashed by a crook, the cursive adder writes
Quick V's and Q's in the dust and rubs them out.

from "Movements”
― Norman MacCaig, Old maps and new: Selected poems

“The wrath of Scotland beckons, it's no more the 45
The no votes wakened up to you, Scotland is alive
Look at how our parties rise whilst you're in disarray
The undertaker's standing by, Scots will have their say.”
― Paul Colvin, Poems for an Independent Scotland