Edwin Muir Quotes

#1. But far within him something cried For the great tragedy to start, The pang in lingering mercy fall And sorrow break upon his heart. - EDWIN MUIR

Doris Lessing

#2. Doubt is an old disease.
Faith is an old medicine.
Compassion is an old doctor.
Concern is an old nurse.

Sri Chinmoy

#3. I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

Tom Waits

#4. We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

Edwin Muir

#5. The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

Edwin Muir

#6. 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.

Edwin Muir

#7. Sex may be a little more factual than love. You know whether it's good or bad. You know whether you liked it or not. You're not going to change your mind about it ten years later.

Iggy Pop

#8. Light and praise,
Love and atonement, harmony and peace.
Touch me, assail me, break and make my heart.

Edwin Muir

#9. Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.

Edwin Muir

#10. The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#11. Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Technology. It's like science, only useless.

Jon Stewart

#13. And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.

Edwin Muir

#14. The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

Edwin Muir

#15. You don't have to go that far," Dr. Roberts said. "You should be able to walk normally. Just no more jumping from balconies for a while."
"How about ever?" Gabriel asked. "Let's go with that. Never ever jump off the school balcony again. Or any balcony. Stay away from balconies.

C.L.Stone

#16. I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. I am the biggest fan of my dreams. If I give up on myself, then my dreams have died...I will not let that happen.

Toye Lawson Brown

#18. Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

Rumi

#19. 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.

Edwin Muir

#20. The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

Edwin Muir

#21. Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

Edwin Muir

#22. Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

Edwin Muir

#23. 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.

Edwin Muir

#24. It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

A.J. Liebling

#25. We read classics to flood the xenosphere with irrelevant words and thoughts, a firewall of knowledge that even makes its way to the subconscious of the customer.

Tade Thompson

#26. I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone.

Edwin Muir

#27. 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.

Edwin Muir