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“There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : 1937 'The Road'.
#Country Quotes
#Time Quotes
#Lying Quotes
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“Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : 1949 The Labyrinth,'The Good Town'.
#Time Quotes
#Kindness Quotes
#Light Quotes
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“Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.”
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Edwin Muir
#Character Quotes
#Reality Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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“And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : 'Journeys and Places' (1937) 'Hölderlin's Journey'
#Law Quotes
#Land Quotes
#Ran Quotes
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“Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : Edwin Muir (1934). “Variations on a time theme”
#Knowledge Quotes
#Skins Quotes
#Toes Quotes
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“See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”
#Bible Quotes
#Journey Quotes
#Rocks Quotes
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“The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : 1936 Scott and Scotland, introduction.
#Mean Quotes
#Mind Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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“The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : 1954 An Autobiography, ch.1.
#Men Quotes
#Performances Quotes
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“We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : Edwin Muir (1956). “One foot in Eden”
#Country Quotes
#Past Quotes
#Long Quotes
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“The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”
#Fall Quotes
#Eden Quotes
#Darkness Quotes
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“I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”
#Law Quotes
#Justice Quotes
#Done Quotes
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“Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.”
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Edwin Muir
Source : Edwin Muir, “The Horses”
#Lying Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Sorrow Quotes
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