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Edwin Muir Quotes

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

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

Country, Past, Long

Edwin Muir (1956). “One foot in Eden”

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”

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”

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.

Patience, Time, Kindness

1949 The Labyrinth,'The Good Town'.

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

Men, Performances, Every Man

1954 An Autobiography, ch.1.

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”

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'.

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.

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”

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.

Character, Reality, Literature

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”

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