Alastair Reid (poet)

Alastair Reid (22 March 1926 – 21 September 2014) was a Scottish poet and a scholar of South American literature. He was known for his light-hearted style of poems and for his translations of South American poets Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. Quotes ... St Andrews, that placid centre of non-learning. "Borderlines", in Karl Miller (ed.), Memoirs of a Modern Scotland (1970) The Borders loom in my mind as a small archipelago of stony towns in a placid sea of grass, woods and furrows, small, bristling islands in a state of armed truce with one another, with their village satellites, their lumbering bus-ferries, their pugnacious localisms. "Borderlines", in Karl Miller (ed.), Memoirs of a Modern Scotland (1970) I can remember coming bursting in from just having glimpsed eternity in a grain of sand and being told, curtly: 'Your tea's cold.' It may be that tea is the reality and glimpses of eternity only a temporary foolishness. If I ever thought so, it might be possible to give up resisting and to belong. "Borderlines", in Karl Miller (ed.), Memoirs of a Modern Scotland (1970) It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet, when larks rose on long thin strings of singing and the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels. "Scotland", in Weathering (1978) External links Category:1926 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Poets from Scotland