In reply to Anonymous' comment on my post Girl, Interrupted, I am reminded of one of my dearest phrases -- "Hope as an anchor".
First person who correctly identifies where this phrase is from and gives the context will win a personally drawn postcard by me in the mail, aesthetics not guaranteed.
The contest begins now!
Let me try:"we have this hope as an anchor firm and secure"
ReplyDelete(hebrews 6:19)?
Try this one too: hope springs eternal in the human breast (anon?)
Congrats! :) If you want to claim your (ugly) postcard prize, send me your slow mail address at onemillionafterthoughts at gmail.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, are you the same anonymous who left the comment on the post "Girl, Interrupted", or are you a different anonymous altogether?
I don't know where that phrase "hope springs eternal" comes from... Hmm.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
ReplyDeleteMan never Is, but always To be blest
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come
Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul proud Science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way,
Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n,
Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1733
check out:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alexanderp163156.html
Crud, I should have known that! Ashamed of self.
ReplyDeleteWill be emailing you at your gmail address by and by. TS Eliot too has many quotatable quotes about hope in his Waste Land and/or Four Quartets.
ReplyDelete