Robin Skelton (12 October 1925 – 22 August 1997) was a British-born academic, writer, poet, and anthologist.
It is the distance between us that creates language.
Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.
Procrustes was an editor.
Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.
Never believe what you cannot doubt.
Some part of us still believes that men should kill.
More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.
Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.
It requires less skill to love than to be loved.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Death is the only mystery we all solve.
Men who like women rarely fall in love.
A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
Headlines pass; breadlines continue.