“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
" The Secret Sits http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-secret-sits/" (1942)
1940s
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American poet 1874–1963Related quotes
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: Where the ring of twilight gleams
Round the sanctuary wrought,
Whispers haunt me — in my dreams
We are one yet know it not.
Some for beauty follow long
Flying traces; some there be
Seek thee only for a song:
I to lose myself in thee.
Rediff, April 4, 1997. " If the motivation is strong enough, I'll fly to the moon http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t3KMttIk5NwJ:www.rediff.com/entertai/apr/04rahl.htm+%22Still+dressed+in+his+night+clothes+and+sporting+a+hep+stubble,%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a" by Suparn Varma
“I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can.”
Statement before the Battle of Falkirk (21 July 1298); as quoted in The Story of England (1909) by Samuel B. Harding http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=harding&book=england&story=edwards
Variants: I hae brocht ye to the ring, now see gif ye can dance.
I have brought you to the ring, now see if you can dance.
I have brought you to the ring. Dance if ye can.
I have brought you to the Revel, Now dance if you can.
"Dancing in the Dark"
Song lyrics, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
Three years she grew in Sun and Shower.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 11.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.”
Quoting a schoolchild in "English as She Is Taught"