WIST Quotations

Peters, Ellis -- The Summer of the Danes, ch. 14 (1991)

Dave — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:00:40 +0000

“But when it comes down to it,” said Cadfael, with profound content, “as roads go, the road home is as good as any.”

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter, who also wrote under the names John Redfern, Jolyon Carr, Peter Benedict]
The Summer of the Danes, ch. 14 (1991)
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Closing words.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord -- “Ulysses,” ll. 22-32 (1842)

Dave — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:10:23 +0000

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!
As tho’ to breathe were life. Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge, like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English poet
“Ulysses,” ll. 22-32 (1842)
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Peters, Ellis -- Summer of the Danes, ch. 14 (1991)

Dave — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:26:20 +0000

“It’s true, now and again my feet itch for the road.” He was looking deep into himself, where old memories survived, and remained, after their fashion, warming and satisfying, but of the past, never to be repeated, no longer desirable. “But when it comes down to it,” said Cadfael, with profound content, “as roads go, the road home is as good as any.”

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter, who also wrote under the names John Redfern, Jolyon Carr, Peter Benedict]
Summer of the Danes, ch. 14 (1991)
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Concluding words of the book.