It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.

There is properly no history, only biography.

There is properly no history, only biography.

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the read more

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.