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'For fifty years this man's hot and angry integrity radiated through Scotland...There is very little written, acted, composed, surmised or demanded in Scotland which does not in some strand descend from the new beginning he made.' The Scotsman |
'He writes in the faith without which there can be no conquest: the belief that Scotland still has something to say to the imagination of mankind...and can say only in her native tongue.' T.S.Eliot |
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‘He spent more time in all there (Brownsbank) than anywhere else - as a place, it is filled with his personality.’ John MacQueen |
'He aims at a bird, and brings a landscape down. He dynamites
a building, and when the dust has settled, what structures shine in the
sun.'
Norman MacCaig |