Compilations at Troynovant:
short (but rare and interesting) quotations,
suitable for stoking trains of thought;
listed by Title

Commentator's instruments These informal lists of quotations in prose or verse are intended to entertain, and perhaps to stimulate some new and wayward trains of thought. Lists are alphabetical by author, or chronological.

The engineer said, when they cheered his name,
"We're right on time, but this is yesterday's train."

"The Rock Island Line"
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Disclaimers and Dedications
  enter as a small Prologue, disarmingly
RW Franson

Mix Pictures of the Mind
  the light of evening
RW Franson

Poetic Troynovant
  renewing Troy in dreaming rhyme
RW Franson

Queen of Dances
  Waltz observations by master writers
RW Franson

Rhetoric or Else
  persuasive speech, or — ?
RW Franson

Speaking through Texts
  a local habitation and a name
RW Franson

Troywards
  Troy traveling, To and Again
RW Franson
  

  
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.

Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine and born of thee.

William Shakespeare
Sonnets, 78

  


  
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