Don Paterson Quote

I'm always amused by those commentators who nervously insist that the working class's constant use of the word fuck is really just a form of punctuation. It is, however, no more or less then what they dread: an inexhaustible river of smelted wrath, a Phlegethon of ancestral grievance.

Aphorisms in Poetry, vol. 187, n. 1, October 2005