WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:30:32 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Phillpotts, Eden – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Phillpotts, Eden -- A Shadow Passes (1918) https://wist.info/phillpotts-eden/3145/ https://wist.info/phillpotts-eden/3145/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3145 The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.


Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) English novelist, poet, playwright
A Shadow Passes (1918)


Sometimes misattributed to Yeats or Shaw.  More here.

Variants / paraphrases:

  • "The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen."
  • "The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
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