“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”
John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer
The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1955 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
“At last incapable of further harm,
The lewd forefathers of the village sleep.”
If Gray had had to write his Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River instead of in that of Stoke Poges.
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British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor 1884–1958Related quotes
“Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
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St. 4 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Sleeping at Last http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/crossetti/bl-crossetti-sleep.htm, st. 1 (1893) .
“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
“But little harm
That error does that turns to good at last.”
Marco Guazzo (1480–1556) Italian historian
È poco male
Quel fallo poi che al fin in ben riesse.
Act V (Filarco).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 295.
Errori d’Amore
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Foresters
Song, Act I, Scene ii
The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion (1892)
Laurie Lee book Cider with Rosie
Source: Cider with Rosie (1959), p. 262.