Edwin Muir
We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.Collection: Country
Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.Collection: Knowledge
And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.Collection: Law
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.Collection: Patience
The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.Collection: Men
The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Bible