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Quotes from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — Hugh MacDiarmid

d. 1978 Scotland

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To meddle wi the thistle and to pluck
The figs frae't is my metier, I think.

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
Extremes meet — it's the only way I ken
To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt
That damns the vast majority o' men.

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)

I amna fou' sae muckle as tired — deid dune.
It's gey and hard wark coupin' gless for gless
Wi' Cruivie and Gilsanquhar and the like,
And I'm no' juist as bauld as aince I wes.

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hugh MacDiarmid (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.