The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza1.

It's our own story exactly! He bold as a hawk, she soft as the dawn.

-Thurber,James Grover
  Cartoon caption, in the NewYorker, 28 Feb.

It is the story of a mountebank and his zany.

-Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
  Of Boswell's account of hisTour of the Hebrides with Dr Johnson. Letter to Henry Conway, 6 Oct. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).

The story of Colonel Chapman's adventures is typical of the British way of war, and therefore begins with a complete lack of preparation.

-Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1st Earl
  Quoted in foreword to F Spencer ChapmanTheJungle is Neutral (1950).

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had beenwritten by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up themselves like green grass.

-Welty, Eudora
  OneWriter's Beginnings, I.'Listening'.

Iam nottrying totell a story.Yet perhapsit might be done in that way. A mind thinking. They might be islands of lightöislands in the stream that I am trying to convey; life itself going on.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  Diary entry, 28 May.