WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:02:21 +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 ruins – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Byron, George Gordon, Lord -- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 2, st. 73 (1812) https://wist.info/byron/72487/ https://wist.info/byron/72487/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:57:59 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=72487 Fair Greece! sad relic of departed Worth!
Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great!


George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 2, st. 73 (1812)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/byron/72487/feed/ 0 72487 Macaulay, Rose -- The Valley Captives (1911) https://wist.info/macaulay-rose/52286/ https://wist.info/macaulay-rose/52286/#respond Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:24:23 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=52286 The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.


Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) English writer
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