I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.

(on reading the Cynewulf lines about the star Earendel)

“That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I h…”

“The world was young, the mountains green,No stain yet on the Moon was seen,No w…”

“his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.”

“For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own s…”