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Medieval Poetry Quotes

“Swarms of bees, beetles, soft music of the world, a gentle humming; brent geese, barnacle geese, shortly before All Hallows, music of the dark wild torrent. (Medieval poem by a monk of Ynys Enlli, an island off the coast of Wales)”

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Book:The Wild Places

Source: The Wild Places

“History is full of incremental improvements and revolutionary convulsions - often these are followed by reactionary backlashes in which rights are revoked, inequalities re-established.”

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Book:Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

Source: Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

“En la forest de Longue Attente chevauchant par divers sentiers m'en voys, ceste année présente où voyage de Desiriers. Devant sont aller mes fourriers pour appareiller mon logis en la Cité de Destinée. Et pout mon cœur et moy ont pris l'ostellerie de Pensée. Dedans mon livre de pensée j'ay trouvé escripvant mon cœur la vraie histoire de douleur de larmes toute enluminée. In het Woud van Lang Verwachten te paard op pad, dolenderwijs, zie ik mijzelf dit jaar bij machte tot Verlangens' verre reis. Mijn knechtstoet is vooruitgegaan om 't nachtverblijf vast te bereiden, vond in Bestemming's Stad gereed voor dit mijn hart, en mij ons beiden, de herberg, die Gedachte heet. In 't boek van mijn gepeinzen al vond ik dan, schrijvende, mijn hart; het waar verhaal van bitt're smart verlucht met tranen zonder tal. Charles d'Orléans”

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Book:In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages

Source: In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages

“Looking for your light, I went out: it was like the sudden dawn of a million million suns, a ganglion of lightnings for my wonder.”

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Book:Speaking of Siva

Source: Speaking of Siva