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Swan Sayings and Quotes. Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old swan quotes, swan sayings, and swan proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources. swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. Jan Struther.
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan! Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake.
This internet edition contains poems selected from Jan Struther's collection of poems and prose, A Pocketful of Pebbles, Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1946.
These poems were first published in the enlarged edition of Songs of Praise (Oxford University Press, 1931). Copyright, the Estate of Jan Struther. The words have been put on the Internet with the permission of the Maxtone Graham family, and the assistance of Joyce Maxtone Graham's son, Robert Maxtone Graham, in 2001.
Jan Struther was the pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham and finally Joyce Placzek (June 6, 1901 – July 20, 1953), an English writer remembered for her character Mrs. Miniver and a number of hymns, such as "Lord of All Hopefulness".
The Jan Struther essay, of which forty-odd are collected here, is an extended version of the Spectator notebook of today: prompted by any observation or memory, and capable of frivolity and profundity at once.
In Mrs Miniver, Struther gives a 'startlingly unsentimental view of the loss of England's innocence in the early days of the war'. Struther was asked to 'create a character whose doings would enliven... an ordinary sort of woman who leads an ordinary sort of life'.
