The Dances of Albion Quotes

“Here, uniquely,
came the day of the death of the gods.
When they fled to the barrows,
and when one, without shelter,
captured the forever by a ruse,
naming it but one night
and a single daytime”
― John Milbank, The Dances of Albion

“To mourn a lost love:
better, longer
than love’s pretence.”
― John Milbank, The Dances of Albion

“Height to height
and light to light,
like butterflies and minor gods
or aerial photographers
we make this plot,
pretend to view
a former fate

where Hardy’s rustics still forgive
what seems to them but nature’s lot.”
― John Milbank, The Dances of Albion