The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? – Dennis Potter
Religion, you cant a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they dont believe. – Dennis Potter
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. – Dennis Potter
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in ones own imagination. – Dennis Potter
Its been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that theyve got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all. – Jane Campion