Quotes from A. L. Rowse

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.