The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

- Edwin Muir

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a…

- Edwin Muir

Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are on…

- Edwin Muir

See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and pla…

- Edwin Muir

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

- Edwin Muir

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

- Edwin Muir

There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies whe…

- Edwin Muir

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

- Edwin Muir

Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.

- Edwin Muir