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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (21 November 1863 โ 12 May 1944) was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q.
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โOnly the heel
Of splendid steel
Shall stand secure on sliding fate,
When golden navies weep their freight.โ
Of splendid steel
Shall stand secure on sliding fate,
When golden navies weep their freight.โ
โAll the old statues of Victory have wings: but Grief has no wings. She is the unwelcome lodger that squats on the hearthstone between us and the fire and will not move or be dislodged.โ
โWhenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey itโwhole-heartedlyโand delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.โ
โI am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.โ
โI could not find the way to God;
There were too many flaming suns
For signposts, and the fearful road
Led over wastes where millions
Of tangled comets hissed and burnedโ
I was bewildered and I turned.โ
There were too many flaming suns
For signposts, and the fearful road
Led over wastes where millions
Of tangled comets hissed and burnedโ
I was bewildered and I turned.โ
โAnd rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notesโreluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or 'appreciate.' For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.โ
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Arthur Quiller-Couch on English poetry 3 quotes
โI have gathered the most of the Ballads into the middle of the Seventeenth Century; where they fill a languid interval between two winds of inspiration โ the Italian dying down with Milton and the French following at the heels of the restored Royalists.โ
Arthur Quiller-Couch on English literature 2 quotes
โFor this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Nor have I sought in these Islands only, but wheresoever the Muse has followed the tongue which among living tongues she most delights to honour.โ
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Arthur Quiller-Couch on Grief
โAll the old statues of Victory have wings: but Grief has no wings. She is the unwelcome lodger that squats on the hearthstone between us and the fire and will not move or be dislodged.โ
About Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (21 November 1863 โ 12 May 1944) was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q.