The following five quotes are all from famous literary works. Can you identify the work and/or the author?
The answers are at the bottom of the post.
1.
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.»
2.
«I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.»
3.
“So the year passes into many yesterdays, and winter comes again, as it needs no sage to tell us.”
4.
The Old Year’s gone away
To nothingness and night:
We cannot find him all the day
Nor hear him in the night:
He left no footstep, mark or place
In either shade or sun:
The last year he’d a neighbour’s face,
In this he’s known by none.
5.
“You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.”
Happy New Year!
Answers to the quiz
- Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Jessie L. Weston, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Old Year by John Clare
- The Children of Men by PD James

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