James MacPherson > Quotes

“We have taught an entire generation to be so open-minded that their brains fell out.”
― James MacPherson

“Thou hast fallen in darkness, like a star that shoots across the desert; when the traveller is alone, and mourns the transient beam!”
― James Macpherson, Fingal: An Epic Poem

“How hast thou fallen like an oak, with all thy branches round thee! Where is Fingal the King? where is Oscur my son? where are all my race? Alas! in the earth they lie. I feel their tombs with my hands. I hear the river below murmering hoarsely over the stones. What dost thou, O river, to me?”
― James MacPherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry