Kevin Crossley-Holland Quotes.

1. "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."
- Quote by Kevin Crossley-Holland

2. "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."
- Quote by Kevin Crossley-Holland

3. "You can teach someone a skill but you can't teach them spirit."
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, Crossing to Paradise

4. "Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning."
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths

5. "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 embarked in their boat and rode out on a tide of gore"
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths

6. "A culture finds the gods it needs."
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths

7. "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; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium."
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths

8. "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, The Norse Myths

9. "The rivers that sprang from Hvergelmir streamed into the void. The yeasty venom in them thickened and congealed like slag, and the rivers turned into ice."
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths

10. "Ymir’s body is divided so that everything, even his eyebrows, were used in the creation of the world; the four dwarfs who hold up the sky; the wolves that chase the sun and moon; the giant’s eyes that are tossed up into heaven and turned into stars: these and a host of other particulars become narrative elements within the cycle."
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings