Edwin Muir Professions : Poet Born : May 15, 1887 Died : January 3, 1959 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by Edwin Muir And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land. Edwin Muir ran land law The ancestral deed is thought and done, Edwin Muir eden darkness fall Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects. Edwin Muir kindness time patience I have observed in foolish awe Edwin Muir done law justice 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 time country lying We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past. Edwin Muir long country past The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man. Edwin Muir every-man performances men Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know. Edwin Muir toes skins knowledge The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind. Edwin Muir literature mind mean 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 rocks journey bible 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 literature character reality Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Edwin Muir sorrow lying thinking Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
