grateful quotes

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

- Ursula ne  e Kroeber Le Guin
   Address to Folger Library Poetry Series, Washington. Collected as'Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry' in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).

I am most grateful to the CLF [Commonwealth Literary Fund] for providing the funds to give these lectures in Australian literature, but unfortunately they have neglected to provide any literature. I will lecture therefore on D H Lawrence's 'Kangaroo'.

-John Innes Mackintosh Stewart
  Quoted in the London Magazine, Nov1985.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.3, sect.6, stanza1, l.1^3.

Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, Avisitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

-William Wordsworth
^1805  The Prelude, bk.1, l.1^9 (published1850).