Minnie Haskins Quotes

Minnie Louise Haskins was a British poet and an academic in the field of sociology, best known for being quoted by King George VI in his Royal Christmas Message of 1939. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. May 1875 – 1957
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Famous Minnie Haskins Quotes

“I heard the quotation read in a summary of the speech. I thought the words sounded familiar and suddenly it dawned on me that they were out of my little book.”

Minnie Haskins

Her reaction on hearing her poem. Daily Telegraph, 16 Aug 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherhowse/3561497/At-the-Gate-of-the-Year.html

“I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year,
"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown."”

Minnie Haskins

And he replied, "Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."
Poem, "God Knows" (1908) as quoted by George VI

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