Edwin Muir Quotes

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

    Knowledge   Skins   Toes  
    Edwin Muir (1934). “Variations on a time theme”
  • The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

    Mean   Mind   Literature  
    1936 Scott and Scotland, introduction.
  • The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

    1954 An Autobiography, ch.1.
  • 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.

    Bible   Journey   Rocks  
    EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”
  • 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.

    Country   Time   Lying  
    1937 'The Road'.
  • And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.

    Law   Land   Ran  
    'Journeys and Places' (1937) 'Hölderlin's Journey'
  • Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

    1949 The Labyrinth,'The Good Town'.
  • We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

    Country   Past   Long  
    Edwin Muir (1956). “One foot in Eden”
  • I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

    Law   Justice   Done  
    EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”
  • 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.

    Fall   Eden   Darkness  
    EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”
  • 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.

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

    Lying   Thinking   Sorrow  
    Edwin Muir, “The Horses”
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