“While the dull talk idly streams,
He sits upon the bank and dreams,
Till some careless word that's said
Finds a fellow in his head…”
Poem: "The Wit" In: A.E. Currie. New Zealand Verse, (1906), p. 198
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Arnold Wall 2
university professor, philologist, poet, mountaineer, botan… 1869–1966Related quotes

“Upon the brink of the wild stream
He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.”
Original: (ru) На берегу пустынных волн Стоял он, дум великих полн.
Source: The Bronze Horseman (1833) trans. Charles Johnston.

“The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.”
The Silence of the Sea (1940)

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)

“They wander in deep woods, in mournful light,
Amid long reeds and drowsy headed poppies
And lakes where no wave laps, and voiceless streams,
Upon whose banks in the dim light grow old
Flowers that were once bewailèd names of kings.”
Errantes silva in magna et sub luce maligna<br/>inter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaver<br/>et tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos,<br/>quorum per ripas nebuloso lumine marcent<br/>fleti, olim regum et puerorum nomina, flores.
Errantes silva in magna et sub luce maligna
inter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaver
et tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos,
quorum per ripas nebuloso lumine marcent
fleti, olim regum et puerorum nomina, flores.
"Cupido Cruciator", line 5; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 31.