Two Memorable Quotes from Thomas Wolfe.

Both of these quotes come from
Thomas Wolfe's magnificent book,
LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL.


"The dark, ancestral cave, the womb
from which mankind emerged into the
light, forever pulls one back -- but
you can't go home again.

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood,
back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, back home to lyricism, back
home to singing just for singing's
sake, back home to places in the
country away from all the strife and
conflict of the world, back home to
the father you lost and have been
looking for, back home to someone
who can save you, ease the burden
for you, back home to the old forms
and systems of things, which once
seemed everlasting, but which are
changing all the time -- back home
to the escapes of Time and Memory."

......

"What is it that we know so well and
cannot speak? What is it that we want to say and cannot tell? What is
it that keeps swelling in our hearts
its grand and solemn music, that is
aching in our throats, that is pulsing like a strange wild grape
through all the conduits of our
blood, that maddens us with its
exultant and intolerable joy, and that leaves us tongueless, wordless,
maddened by our fury to the end?"

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Both of these quotes come from
Thomas Wolfe's magnificent book,
LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL.


"The dark, ancestral cave, the womb
from which mankind emerged into the
light, forever pulls one back -- but
you can't go home again.

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood,
back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, back home to lyricism, back
home to singing just for singing's
sake, back home to places in the
country away from all the strife and
conflict of the world, back home to
the father you lost and have been
looking for, back home to someone
who can save you, ease the burden
for you, back home to the old forms
and systems of things, which once
seemed everlasting, but which are
changing all the time -- back home
to the escapes of Time and Memory."

......

"What is it that we know so well and
cannot speak? What is it that we want to say and cannot tell? What is
it that keeps swelling in our hearts
its grand and solemn music, that is
aching in our throats, that is pulsing like a strange wild grape
through all the conduits of our
blood, that maddens us with its
exultant and intolerable joy, and that leaves us tongueless, wordless,
maddened by our fury to the end?"

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