Quotes by Kevin Crossley-Holland

About Kevin Crossley-Holland:

Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children's author and poet. His best known work may now be the Arthur trilogy, published around age sixty (2000–2003), for which he won the Guardian Prize and other recognition.
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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

A culture finds the gods it needs.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

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; ...

Kevin Crossley-Holland

The three sons of Bor had no liking for Ymir... At last they attacked Ymir and killed him. His wounds were like springs; so much blood streamed from them and so fast, that the flood drowned all the frost giants except Bergelmir and his wife. They emb...

Kevin Crossley-Holland

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

Author Bio

  • NameKevin Crossley-Holland
  • DescriptionEnglish writer and translator
  • BornFebruary 7, 1941
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Librettist