Edwin Muir

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

— Edwin Muir

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

— Edwin Muir

There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it…

— Edwin Muir

“Since I emerged that day from the labyrinth, Dazed with the tall and echoing passages, The swift recoils, so many I almost…

— Edwin Muir

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

— Edwin Muir

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

— Edwin Muir

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

— Edwin Muir

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

— Edwin Muir

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

— Edwin Muir

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is…

— Edwin Muir

Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while…

— Edwin Muir

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

— Edwin Muir

See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half…

— Edwin Muir

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

— Edwin Muir

“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of…

— Edwin Muir