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. He bears the seed of ruin in himself. It's better to make a good run, than a bad stand. Books are not absolute dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them - Milton. People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.