Edwin Muir Quotes

Edwin Muir was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator. Born on a farm in Deerness, a parish of Orkney, Scotland, he is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry written in plain language and with few stylistic preoccupations. His wife, Willa Muir, translated the works of many German authors, including Franz Kafka. These were issued under their joint names, but his wife notes that he "only helped". Wikipedia

✵ 15. May 1887 – 3. January 1959

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Famous Edwin Muir Quotes

“They do not live in the world,
Are not in time and space.
From birth to death hurled
No word do they have, not one
To plant a foot upon,
Were never in any place.”

Edwin Muir

The Animals (1983)

“The world's great day is growing late,
Yet strange these fields that we have planted
So long with crops of love and hate.”

Edwin Muir

One Foot in Eden (1972)

“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 Brothers (1983)

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

Edwin Muir

Scott and Scotland (1936), Introduction.

“Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,
To his father's house below securely bound.”

Edwin Muir

Childhood (1983)

“There is a road that turning always
Cuts off the country of Again.
Archers stand there on every side
And as it runs time's deer is slain
And lies where it has lain.”

Edwin Muir

"The Road" http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/muire-journeysandplaces/muire-journeysandplaces-00-h.html#The_Road, Journeys and Places (1937)

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