Surely, there, surely they will let you pass. Speak then and ask the forest and loam. There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the great divisions of the human race. Iris Murdoch, from Nuns and Soldiers.
Old men ought to be explorers.
If I had a lantern, I d light the way for you. - Lantern , by Michael McDermott. We need help, the Poet reckoned. After those many years abroad you come With images you tended Under foreign skies Far away from your own land. Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we can walk.