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[T]he Celtic Twilightists achieved the remarkable feat of attributing to Gaelic poetry the very opposite of every quality which it actually has.

— Sorley MacLean

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Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig ("Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig")

I believe Mull had much to do with my poetry: its physical beauty, so different from Skye’s, with the terrible imprint of the clearances on it, made it almost intolerable for a Gael.

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