--- title: "Renewal Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Poetic meditations on renewal celebrate rebirth, the cyclical nature of hope, and the bittersweet glow of fresh beginnings after loss." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## Short renewal quotes 1. > There never was night that had no morn. [Dinah Maria Mulock](https://quotesby.net/Dinah-Maria-Mulock)[Dinah Maria Mulock quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Dinah-Maria-Mulock/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 2. > Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. [Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://quotesby.net/Carl-Friedrich-Gauss)[Carl Friedrich Gauss quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/Carl-Friedrich-Gauss/20/ "Permalink to quote 20") 3. > Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://quotesby.net/F.-Scott-Fitzgerald)[F. Scott Fitzgerald quote \#90](https://quotesby.net/F.-Scott-Fitzgerald/90/ "Permalink to quote 90") 4. > It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. [Kurt Vonnegut](https://quotesby.net/Kurt-Vonnegut)[Kurt Vonnegut quote \#228](https://quotesby.net/Kurt-Vonnegut/228/ "Permalink to quote 228") 5. > Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. [Ovid](https://quotesby.net/Ovid)[Ovid quote \#79](https://quotesby.net/Ovid/79/ "Permalink to quote 79") 6. > Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn. [Rabindranath Tagore](https://quotesby.net/Rabindranath-Tagore)[Rabindranath Tagore quote \#108](https://quotesby.net/Rabindranath-Tagore/108/ "Permalink to quote 108") 7. > Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! [Wallace Stevens](https://quotesby.net/Wallace-Stevens)[Wallace Stevens quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Wallace-Stevens/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 8. > You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new. [Yanni](https://quotesby.net/Yanni)[Yanni quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/Yanni/20/ "Permalink to quote 20") ## More renewal quotes 1. > Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on. [Fay Weldon](https://quotesby.net/Fay-Weldon)[Fay Weldon quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Fay-Weldon/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 2. > The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. [Gaston Bachelard](https://quotesby.net/Gaston-Bachelard)[Gaston Bachelard quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Gaston-Bachelard/16/ "Permalink to quote 16") 3. > We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding. [Nicolas Chamfort](https://quotesby.net/Nicolas-Chamfort)[Nicolas Chamfort quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Nicolas-Chamfort/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 4. > Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement. [Nicole Krauss](https://quotesby.net/Nicole-Krauss)[Nicole Krauss quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/Nicole-Krauss/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") 5. > The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://quotesby.net/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley)[Percy Bysshe Shelley quote \#126](https://quotesby.net/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley/126/ "Permalink to quote 126") 6. > Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. [Rabindranath Tagore](https://quotesby.net/Rabindranath-Tagore)[Rabindranath Tagore quote \#51](https://quotesby.net/Rabindranath-Tagore/51/ "Permalink to quote 51") 7. > And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. [Ray Bradbury](https://quotesby.net/Ray-Bradbury)[Ray Bradbury quote \#17](https://quotesby.net/Ray-Bradbury/17/ "Permalink to quote 17") 8. > If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole. [Swami Vivekananda](https://quotesby.net/Swami-Vivekananda)[Swami Vivekananda quote \#100](https://quotesby.net/Swami-Vivekananda/100/ "Permalink to quote 100") 9. > England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls? [William Blake](https://quotesby.net/William-Blake)[William Blake quote \#148](https://quotesby.net/William-Blake/148/ "Permalink to quote 148") 10. > Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! [William Wordsworth](https://quotesby.net/William-Wordsworth)[William Wordsworth quote \#40](https://quotesby.net/William-Wordsworth/40/ "Permalink to quote 40") 11. > We wish to continue in following up the legacy of the Second Vatican Council whose wise regulations have still to be led to their fulfilment, being careful that a push, generous perhaps, but unduly timed, does not detract from the content and meaning of the council, and on the other hand being careful and reined and timid efforts do not slow up the magnificent drive of renewal and of life. [John Paul I (Pope)](https://quotesby.net/John-Paul-I-(Pope))[John Paul I (Pope) quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/John-Paul-I-(Pope)/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") 12. > Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. [Alexander Solzhenitsyn](https://quotesby.net/Alexander-Solzhenitsyn)[Alexander Solzhenitsyn quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Alexander-Solzhenitsyn/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 13. > What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins. [Friedrich von Schiller](https://quotesby.net/Friedrich-von-Schiller)[Friedrich von Schiller quote \#82](https://quotesby.net/Friedrich-von-Schiller/82/ "Permalink to quote 82") 14. > It's never too late while you're breathing. [Lois McMaster Bujold](https://quotesby.net/Lois-McMaster-Bujold)[Lois McMaster Bujold quote \#135](https://quotesby.net/Lois-McMaster-Bujold/135/ "Permalink to quote 135") 15. > Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name. [Rabindranath Tagore](https://quotesby.net/Rabindranath-Tagore)[Rabindranath Tagore quote \#52](https://quotesby.net/Rabindranath-Tagore/52/ "Permalink to quote 52") 16. > When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow. [William S. Burroughs](https://quotesby.net/William-S.-Burroughs)[William S. Burroughs quote \#53](https://quotesby.net/William-S.-Burroughs/53/ "Permalink to quote 53") 17. > Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping- anon- anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone. [William Wordsworth](https://quotesby.net/William-Wordsworth)[William Wordsworth quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/William-Wordsworth/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") 18. > I seek no copy now of life's first half: Leave here the pages with long musing curled, And write me new my future's epigraph, New angel mine, unhoped for in the world! [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://quotesby.net/Elizabeth-Barrett-Browning)[Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote \#23](https://quotesby.net/Elizabeth-Barrett-Browning/23/ "Permalink to quote 23") 19. > For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walked the waves. [John Milton](https://quotesby.net/John-Milton)[John Milton quote \#113](https://quotesby.net/John-Milton/113/ "Permalink to quote 113") 20. > Nothing is permanent: certainly not the frozen images of barbarous power with which fascism now confronts us. Those images may easily be smashed by an external shock, cracked as ignominiously as the fallen Dagon, the massive idol of the heathen; or they may be melted, eventually, by the internal warmth of normal men and women. Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal. As life becomes insurgent once more in our civilization, conquering the reckless thrust of barbarism, the culture of cities will be both instrument and goal. [Lewis Mumford](https://quotesby.net/Lewis-Mumford)[Lewis Mumford quote \#17](https://quotesby.net/Lewis-Mumford/17/ "Permalink to quote 17") 21. > I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy. [Marilyn Monroe](https://quotesby.net/Marilyn-Monroe)[Marilyn Monroe quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/Marilyn-Monroe/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") 22. > For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://quotesby.net/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley)[Percy Bysshe Shelley quote \#116](https://quotesby.net/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley/116/ "Permalink to quote 116") 23. > I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth. [Robinson Jeffers](https://quotesby.net/Robinson-Jeffers)[Robinson Jeffers quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Robinson-Jeffers/16/ "Permalink to quote 16") 24. > It is time for us to realize that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope. We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. [Ronald Reagan](https://quotesby.net/Ronald-Reagan)[Ronald Reagan quote \#61](https://quotesby.net/Ronald-Reagan/61/ "Permalink to quote 61") 25. > After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun. [Wallace Stevens](https://quotesby.net/Wallace-Stevens)[Wallace Stevens quote \#33](https://quotesby.net/Wallace-Stevens/33/ "Permalink to quote 33") 26. > In those days, there was something more to the world than there is now. Well, my kids were little, let's put it that way, and of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again. [William Saroyan](https://quotesby.net/William-Saroyan)[William Saroyan quote \#155](https://quotesby.net/William-Saroyan/155/ "Permalink to quote 155") 27. > Turn over a new leaf. [Edmund Burke](https://quotesby.net/Edmund-Burke)[Edmund Burke quote \#39](https://quotesby.net/Edmund-Burke/39/ "Permalink to quote 39") 28. > It felt like a new day. [Oprah Winfrey](https://quotesby.net/Oprah-Winfrey)[Oprah Winfrey quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Oprah-Winfrey/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 29. > From the dark end of the street To the bright side of the road We'll be lovers once again on the Bright side of the road [Van Morrison](https://quotesby.net/Van-Morrison)[Van Morrison quote \#51](https://quotesby.net/Van-Morrison/51/ "Permalink to quote 51") 30. > The sun is new each day. [Heraclitus](https://quotesby.net/Heraclitus)[Heraclitus quote \#45](https://quotesby.net/Heraclitus/45/ "Permalink to quote 45") 31. > When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. ~ 37 [Rabindranath Tagore](https://quotesby.net/Rabindranath-Tagore)[Rabindranath Tagore quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Rabindranath-Tagore/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 32. > I've found that every time I've made a radical change, it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist. [David Bowie](https://quotesby.net/David-Bowie)[David Bowie quote \#64](https://quotesby.net/David-Bowie/64/ "Permalink to quote 64") 33. > The West is the fitting tomb for all the sorrow and the sighing, all the errors and the follies of the Past: for all its withered Hopes and all its buried Loves! From the East comes new strength, new ambition, new Hope, new Life, new Love! Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!' [Lewis Carroll](https://quotesby.net/Lewis-Carroll)[Lewis Carroll quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/Lewis-Carroll/22/ "Permalink to quote 22") 34. > Staff and effigy of the animal which by shedding its skin is a sign of renewal - the symbol of medicine. [Marianne Moore](https://quotesby.net/Marianne-Moore)[Marianne Moore quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/Marianne-Moore/18/ "Permalink to quote 18") 35. > 'To renew' applies when we are fighting with the enemy, and an entangled spirit arises where there is no possible resolution. We must abandon our efforts, think of the situation in a fresh spirit then win in the new rhythm. To renew, when we are deadlocked with the enemy, means that without changing our circumstance we change our spirit and win through a different technique. [Miyamoto Musashi](https://quotesby.net/Miyamoto-Musashi)[Miyamoto Musashi quote \#68](https://quotesby.net/Miyamoto-Musashi/68/ "Permalink to quote 68") 36. > I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title. [Neil Gaiman](https://quotesby.net/Neil-Gaiman)[Neil Gaiman quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/Neil-Gaiman/19/ "Permalink to quote 19") 37. > From every joy and pain a hope leaps out eternally to escape this pain and to widen joy. And again the ascent begins - which is pain - and joy is reborn and new hope springs up once more. The circle never closes. It is not a circle, but a spiral which ascends eternally, ever widening, enfolding and unfolding the triune struggle. [Nikos Kazantzakis](https://quotesby.net/Nikos-Kazantzakis)[Nikos Kazantzakis quote \#59](https://quotesby.net/Nikos-Kazantzakis/59/ "Permalink to quote 59") 38. > God cries to my heart: 'Save me!' God cries to men, to animals, to plants, to matter: 'Save me!' Listen to your heart and follow him. Shatter your body and awake: We are all one. Love man because you are he. Love animals and plants because you were they, and now they follow you like faithful co-workers and slaves. Love your body; only with it may you fight on this earth and turn matter into spirit. Love matter. God clings to it tooth and nail, and fights. Fight with him. Die every day. Be born every day. Deny everything you have every day. The superior virtue is not to be free but to fight for freedom. Do not condescend to ask: 'Shall we conquer? Shall we be conquered?' Fight on! [Nikos Kazantzakis](https://quotesby.net/Nikos-Kazantzakis)[Nikos Kazantzakis quote \#85](https://quotesby.net/Nikos-Kazantzakis/85/ "Permalink to quote 85") 39. > Your Nordic blue eyes looked attentively at the paintings hanging on the walls. I felt stirrings of rebellion: a whole clash between your civilization and my barbarism. Civilization from which you suffer. Barbarism which for me is a rejuvenation. [Paul Gauguin](https://quotesby.net/Paul-Gauguin)[Paul Gauguin quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/Paul-Gauguin/14/ "Permalink to quote 14") 40. > Just as I was starting on my journey the idea came to me for a new symphony, this time with a program, but a program which will remain an enigma to all- let them guess it who can. It will be called 'A Programmatic Symphony' (No. 6). During my trip, while composing in my mind, I frequently shed tears. When I got home I settled down to sketch it, and the work went so furiously that I had the first movement completely ready in less than four days and the remaining movements are already clearly outlined in my head. Half the third movement is already done. There will be much innovation of form in this symphony- and incidentally, the finale will not be a noisy allegro but, on the contrary, a long drawn-out adagio. You can't imagine what bliss I feel, being convinced that my time is not yet passed and I can still work. Perhaps, of course, I'm mistaken, but I don't think so. [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky](https://quotesby.net/Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky)[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 41. > The way you see me walking on That's why I'm telling you in song There's only one way to get ahead You've got to give it up instead Start all over again. [Van Morrison](https://quotesby.net/Van-Morrison)[Van Morrison quote \#88](https://quotesby.net/Van-Morrison/88/ "Permalink to quote 88") 42. > The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginning And sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end. [Wallace Stevens](https://quotesby.net/Wallace-Stevens)[Wallace Stevens quote \#97](https://quotesby.net/Wallace-Stevens/97/ "Permalink to quote 97") 43. > Should there be a question of returning or Of death in memory's dream? Is spring a sleep? This warmth is for lovers at last accomplishing Their love, this beginning, not resuming, this Booming and booming of the new-come bee. [Wallace Stevens](https://quotesby.net/Wallace-Stevens)[Wallace Stevens quote \#126](https://quotesby.net/Wallace-Stevens/126/ "Permalink to quote 126") 44. > 'Spring and All' from Spring and All (1923) [William Carlos Williams](https://quotesby.net/William-Carlos-Williams)[William Carlos Williams quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/William-Carlos-Williams/11/ "Permalink to quote 11") 45. > On thy wither'd lips and dry, Which like barren furrows lie, Brooding kisses I will pour, Shall thy youthful heart restore. (Such kind showers in autumn fall, And a second spring recall); Nor from thee will ever part, Ancient Person of my Heart. [John, 2nd Earl of Rochester Wilmot](https://quotesby.net/John,-2nd-Earl-of-Rochester-Wilmot)[John, 2nd Earl of Rochester Wilmot quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/John,-2nd-Earl-of-Rochester-Wilmot/14/ "Permalink to quote 14") 46. > The idea of Islamic renewal, which understands Islam as capable not only of educating human beings but also of ordering the world, will always have two types of people as its opponents: conservatives who want the old forms, and modernists who want someone else's forms. - ibid., p. 8 [Alija Izetbegovic](https://quotesby.net/Alija-Izetbegovic)[Alija Izetbegovic quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Alija-Izetbegovic/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 47. > Some people called it 'The time of undoing; ' some, wishing to be more positive, spoke of it as 'The replanting' or 'The restoring' or even 'The resurrection' of the earth. All these names were accurate. Something had been done, and now it was being undone. Much had died or been broken or killed, and now it was coming back to life [Orson Scott Card](https://quotesby.net/Orson-Scott-Card)[Orson Scott Card quote \#762](https://quotesby.net/Orson-Scott-Card/762/ "Permalink to quote 762") 48. > There never was night that had no morn. [Dinah Craik](https://quotesby.net/Dinah-Craik)[Dinah Craik quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Dinah-Craik/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 49. > The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue. [Richard Edwardes](https://quotesby.net/Richard-Edwardes)[Richard Edwardes quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Richard-Edwardes/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 50. > Upon your shattered ruins where This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble. [Eleanor Farjeon](https://quotesby.net/Eleanor-Farjeon)[Eleanor Farjeon quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Eleanor-Farjeon/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 51. > Morning has broken, Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing Fresh from the Word! [Eleanor Farjeon](https://quotesby.net/Eleanor-Farjeon)[Eleanor Farjeon quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/Eleanor-Farjeon/26/ "Permalink to quote 26") 52. > Little darling It's been a long cold lonely winter Little darling It feels like years since it's been here. Here comes the sun... [George Harrison](https://quotesby.net/George-Harrison)[George Harrison quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/George-Harrison/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 53. > Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today. [John Donne](https://quotesby.net/John-Donne)[John Donne quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/John-Donne/19/ "Permalink to quote 19") 54. > Politics and strategy are one. Nations should live in an atmosphere of self-criticism because it is healthy, but always with one heart and one mind. Stoop to the unhappy, and lift them up in your arms! Thaw out frozen America with the fire of your hearts! Make the natural blood of the nations? course vigorously through their veins! The new American are on their feet, saluting each other from nation to nation, the eyes of the laborers shining with joy. The natural statesman arises, schooled in the direct study of Nature. He reads to apply his knowledge, not to imitate. [Jose Marti](https://quotesby.net/Jose-Marti)[Jose Marti quote \#40](https://quotesby.net/Jose-Marti/40/ "Permalink to quote 40") 55. > Nada esta perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo esta perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo. [Julio Cortazar](https://quotesby.net/Julio-Cortazar)[Julio Cortazar quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Julio-Cortazar/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 56. > The sea, the ever renewing sea! [Paul Valery](https://quotesby.net/Paul-Valery)[Paul Valery quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Paul-Valery/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 57. > I love people. I love my family, my children ... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. [Pearl Buck](https://quotesby.net/Pearl-Buck)[Pearl Buck quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/Pearl-Buck/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 58. > 'It (2006) will be the year of rebuilding and reclaiming the lost confidence, the lost spirit and the lost soul of our beloved country.' [Ratu Epeli Ganilau](https://quotesby.net/Ratu-Epeli-Ganilau)[Ratu Epeli Ganilau quote \#43](https://quotesby.net/Ratu-Epeli-Ganilau/43/ "Permalink to quote 43") 59. > My sun sets to rise again. [Robert Browning](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Browning)[Robert Browning quote \#13](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Browning/13/ "Permalink to quote 13") 60. > I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better. [Robert Frost](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Frost)[Robert Frost quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Frost/15/ "Permalink to quote 15") 61. > I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at. [Robert Frost](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Frost)[Robert Frost quote \#59](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Frost/59/ "Permalink to quote 59") 62. > To warm the frozen swamp as best it could With the slow smokeless burning of decay. [Robert Frost](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Frost)[Robert Frost quote \#72](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Frost/72/ "Permalink to quote 72") 63. > I have kept hidden in the instep arch Of an old cedar at the waterside A broken drinking goblet like the Grail Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it, So can't get saved, as Saint Mark says they mustn't. (I stole the goblet from the children's playhouse.) Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion. [Robert Frost](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Frost)[Robert Frost quote \#115](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Frost/115/ "Permalink to quote 115") 64. > There is no sign of leaf or bud, A hush is over everything - Silent as women wait for love, The world is waiting for the spring. [Sara Teasdale](https://quotesby.net/Sara-Teasdale)[Sara Teasdale quote \#13](https://quotesby.net/Sara-Teasdale/13/ "Permalink to quote 13") 65. > Time is beginning to flow again. [Simone De Beauvoir](https://quotesby.net/Simone-De-Beauvoir)[Simone De Beauvoir quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/Simone-De-Beauvoir/14/ "Permalink to quote 14") 66. > Italiens ou francais, la misere nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire ecrit et que la philosophie medite, la misere est le vetement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d'arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l'Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passe par la grande robe pourpre de l'aurore. [Victor Hugo](https://quotesby.net/Victor-Hugo)[Victor Hugo quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/Victor-Hugo/22/ "Permalink to quote 22") 67. > Turn over a new leaf. [Thomas Dekker](https://quotesby.net/Thomas-Dekker)[Thomas Dekker quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/Thomas-Dekker/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 68. > 'Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You may have been in a room in which there was a window that looked out on a lovely bay of the sea or a green valley that wound away among the mountains. And in the wall of that room opposite to the glass there may have been a looking glass. And the sea in the mirror, or the valley in the mirror, were in one sense just the same as the real ones: yet at the same time they were somehow different - deeper, more wonderful, more like places in a story: in a story you have never heard but very much want to know. The difference between the old Narnia and the new Narnia was like that. The new one was a deeper country: every rock and flower and blade of grass looked like it meant more. I can't describe it any better than that: if you ever get there you will know what I mean. It was the unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed, and then cried: 'I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia so much is because it sometimes looked a little like this. Bree-hee-hee! Come further up, come further in!'(ch. 15) [C. S. Lewis](https://quotesby.net/C.-S.-Lewis)[C. S. 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