Peter Ackroyd Quotes

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last…And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

He had a fear of the dead, and of all inanimate things, rising up around him to claim him; it is the fear of the preeminently solitary child and solitary man.

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.