Edwin Muir: Timing

Edwin Muir was British poet, novelist and translator. Explore interesting quotes on timing.

Edwin Muir: 12 quotes 0 likes

“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)

Death , World , Birth , Time

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

Edwin Muir

Childhood (1983)

Time , Housing

“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)

Time , Country