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Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.

~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland Change

Playing in an orchestra is completely different to playing on my own.Sometimes I played, sometimes listened; instead of waiting my turn, I sometimes interrupted another player, sometimes I argued, sometimes agreed.My flute is my mouthpiece and I felt as if I was actually joining in a conversation.

~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland Music Orchestra

Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.

~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

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In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium.

~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland History Language Poet Poetry Spoken Word

A culture finds the gods it needs.

~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland Culture

Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his legs fathered a son on the other leg.

~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland Creation Giant Man Myth Norse Woman Ymir

When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.

~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland People Garden Museum
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